Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards have moderate shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping and tearing. Bindings are sound. End pages have age-toning and smudging. Front free pages have previous owners gift inscription. Page edges have age-toning and smudging with scuffing. Interior pages are age-toned and smudged with foxing. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Dutton, 1957
Da: Court Street Books LLC, Florence, AL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Very nice copy, tight and square. Bright covers with clean unmarked interior. Jacket is price clipped but bright with just slight edge wear.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Dutton, 1957
Da: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition signed by the subject Joseph E. Ragen on the ffep. VG/VG. Moderate edge wear to dust jacket; original 3.95 price is intact on flap. Jacket is now in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Wear to edges and corners of boards. Binding is strong. Text is clean. Ships in a box packed with care.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: E. P. Dutton, New Yo K, 1957
Da: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR Gladys A. Ericson and Warden Joseph Ragen, and with collectible dust jacket SCARCE THUS. Near Fine, prior owner name in pencil, bit of shelf rubbing, rear end page bottom corner creases. In a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear. SIGNED BY AUTHORS.
Editore: Dutton, 1957
Da: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, chips, edge wear.
Editore: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, New York, NY, 1957
Da: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. First Edition. 248 pages of text. Red hardcover cloth binding with minor sunning to the spine and shelfwear along the top edge of the rear board. Signed and inscribed by Warden Ragen on front endpaper "To [name withheld] In Appreciation. [signed] Jos. E. Ragen." Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. With an Introduction by Joseph E. Ragen, and a Foreword by Harry Reutlinger. Lacks the dustjacket. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1957. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 5 ½ x 8". 248 pp. Fair in a fair dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Rubbing to the dust jacket with creases, chipping and closed tears to the extremities. Rubbing and soiling to the boards. Previous owner's name / address plate on the front and rear free endpapers. Minor to moderate soiling to some of the inside pages. Tears to the edges of some of the inside pages. Contains some underlining and marks in ink in the text. The binding is shaken and beginning to split in areas. Otherwise it is still intact.
Editore: E.P. Dutton, New York, 1957
Da: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author, dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a bright, unclipped dustwrapper. Biography of Joseph E. Ragen, long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet (home to Leopold & Loeb, Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, Basil "The Owl" Banghart and, fictionally, Jake & Elwood Blues). Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry Reutlinger; well-illustrated with photographic plates (halftones). Very nice copy; uncommon signed. Signed.