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Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars
by Rideau, Wilbert and Ron Wikberg
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Times Books, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95
- Title
- Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars
- Author
- Rideau, Wilbert and Ron Wikberg
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Times Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- prison, felon, convict, crime, murder, abolition, jail, incarcerated
Terms of Sale
small volume
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About the Seller
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
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Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
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- Edges
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- Text Block
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