Rideau Wilbert and Ron Wikberg (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good COndition paperback 342 pages.

paperback. illus. 8vo, pr. wrs. (N.Y.): Times Books, (1992). vg.

Condition: VERY GOOD. 2nd printing, a trade paperback original. A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.

x, 342p., illus., second printing paperback; covers slightly handled, else very good. Rideau is the African American editor of The Angolite, the newspaper at Louisiana's Angola Penitentiary.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 342 pp. Glossy grey and black pictorial wraps. Creasing and curling to front wrapper, small stain to text block fore edge, affecting last few leaves at outer margin. Interior otherwise clean, as new. Review copy, with publicist's promotional material laid in at front: 3 pp typed reviews and author interview, on Times Books letterhead with contact for Kent Holland, Senior Publicist, single leaf photocopy of article about the book, black and white 5x7 in. author photo. All items held with a paperclip, some faint rust marks to edges. A "well-researched and beautifully written account of life inside Louisiana's notorious Angola State Prison by two lifetime inmates" -Shana Alexander.

SIGNED. Inscribed to the poet Janine Pommy Vega, a prominent prison activist and teacher in the prison system especially in New York State. This excellent anthology by prison activists and well designed with vintage photographs and portraits. Janine Pommy Vega has read this book thoroughly and stood by it. Signature(s) may be from another prison activist or author and difficult to identify. Close to fine wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.