Mccune Billy 1929 2007 (1 results)

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. An indictment of our prison system - McCune, a "low IQ" man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death although his sentence was eventually commuted (but not until after he mutilated himself), and even after the commutation he spent months in isolationm but despite this he continued to write his story. Illustrated with photographs by Lyon, who also wrote the introduction. Many of McCune's drawings were included in Lyon's 1971 book 'Conversations with the Dead." 154 pp. Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover.…