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The Vanguard Press, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Blue cloth with red titles, bright with light edgewear, sunning along bottom edge of front panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket gently age-soiled with moderate edgewear, including chip from bottom edge of front cover that cuts into titling. Remnant of early bookseller's ticket at rear paste down. Interior else clean, lightly toned, text unmarked.
ESCAPE TO PRISON: The True Story of "Killer" Martin by BURNS, Robert E - 1938
by BURNS, Robert E
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ESCAPE TO PRISON: The True Story of "Killer" Martin
by BURNS, Robert E
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First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth, with title stamped red on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 306pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns from binders glue, trivial soil to rear joint, with decorative skull & bones bookplate of Col. John E. Barrington Kennett on front endpaper; a tight, clean copy. Very Good +.
Dustjacket is unclipped, showing a three stray ink marks on front flap, with some short tears, creasing, and moderate chipping along the edges, with minimal effect to the design and none to the lettering; Very Good.
Burns' second book; he knew "Killer" Martin from two stints in Georgia prison camps, and wrote Martin's story while he himself was an escaped "convict" still at large. Jack "Killer" Martin was an Irishman who refused to get involved in a Chicago bootlegging racket.
He was caught on the charge offsticking up a man who had cheated him and sent to a chain gang, where he kills a guard and escapes. He was caught and sent to prison, only to be sent back to the chain gang, from which he escapes - again. A compelling account of one convict written by another, creating a compelling case for just how brutal chain gang conditions were in the 1930's. A scarce title.
Dustjacket is unclipped, showing a three stray ink marks on front flap, with some short tears, creasing, and moderate chipping along the edges, with minimal effect to the design and none to the lettering; Very Good.
Burns' second book; he knew "Killer" Martin from two stints in Georgia prison camps, and wrote Martin's story while he himself was an escaped "convict" still at large. Jack "Killer" Martin was an Irishman who refused to get involved in a Chicago bootlegging racket.
He was caught on the charge offsticking up a man who had cheated him and sent to a chain gang, where he kills a guard and escapes. He was caught and sent to prison, only to be sent back to the chain gang, from which he escapes - again. A compelling account of one convict written by another, creating a compelling case for just how brutal chain gang conditions were in the 1930's. A scarce title.
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- Publisher The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1938
- Keywords Prison
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Escape to Prison
by Burns, Robert E
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