About this title: This is Burns' story of his escape from a Georgia chain gang in 1921, after being sentenced to six to ten years' hard labour for robbery. He lived as a free man for seven years before being recaptured and returned to the chain gang. Escaping again, he was a fugitive when his story was published.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Vanguard Press, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library 257 pages. Usual ex-library features. Pages are slightly darkened with age, have a few light mudges, and a few corners creased. Pages and binding are tight. The book has been library hard bound. cover is scuffed, rubbed and edge worn. Library sticker on spine. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gale Research Company, Detroit, Ill.
Date Published: 1972
Description: VG in None Present jacket. Autobiography/Southern/ Prison I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! This is a reprinted copy of a sensational book from the 30s. It's an ex-library copy that has a public library stamp on the front endpapers with"Withdrawn" stamped across the library stamp. The pocket has been crudely removed from the back endpapers, but without damage to the book. I found no stamping or writing in the book. Binding is secure with a slight lean. Dewey decimal number on spine. A ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13:9780820319438ISBN:0820319430
Description: Good. 0820319430 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13:9780820319438ISBN:0820319430
Description: New. 0820319430 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Photoplay edition with stills from the movie on endpapers, hardcover, slight lean, cloth covers lightly mottled, 4 small dark stains to rear board, light browning to page edges, otherwise solid, a VG copy without dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: NY
Date Published: 1932
Description: Endpapers showing scenes from movie with Paul Muni, 8 x 5.5, decorated cloth, 257 pp, covers worn and soiled, hinges loose, front inner hinge cracked, contents toned, ink name. Whomever wrote his name in this book scratched out the SIGNED INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR on a special "Souvenir Edition, The Steel Pier, Atlantic City New Jersey" inserted page. Still readable inscription and signature, but...Sad, sad, sad. SWAF. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vanguard Press, NY
Date Published: 1932
Description: True first edition (same date on title and copyright pages; no additional printings listed) Hardcover, in original gray and blue pictorial cloth. Fair, no dustjacket. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, moderate soil and shelf scuffing on cloth, spine and margins of boards tanned, approx 1/4 inch deep fraying at head and foot of spine. Internally, flaps from DJ pasted on to boards, tanning in gutters of endpapers, front and rear hinges cracked with gauze exposed there; first ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 257pp. Photoplay edition. Boards are slightly bumped, page edges are slightly handled. Pages are slightly age darkened, otherwise interior is clean and tight. DJ, in mylar protective cover, is rubbed, chipped and edgeworn. 1/4" chips in all corners and head of spine. 1/2" open tear in front top spine corner. 1/4" closed tear in front bottom edge. read more
Description: 1932 photoplay with photographic ep's, with paul muni. vg bluish binding with edge tanning, in a vg jacket with chipped corners and spine ends, some spine fading. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers Picture starring Paul Muni. Winfield Meggs dustjacket art. Very Good Plus with speckling of cloth wear to front cover in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to bottom spine end, dime size chip to top spine end, shallow chipping to front flap edge and rear top edge, and mild darkening to white areas of dustjacket. read more
Binding: HARD BACK GREY
Publisher: VANGUARD, AMHERST, VA
Date Published: 1932
Description: VERY GOOD GOOD DJ. GOOD DJ. 6 X 8. Dj is laminated, however, tanned spine and rear cover, crease in spine, and the lamination has a few small air bubbles. Book has plastic protective cover, deckled fore edge, good binding, clean body and unmarked text. Light shelf wear, otherwise, excellent! ! _PAB_ read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
"My husband read the book avidly and recommended it to me. However, I read only a couple of chapters and decided it was too frustrating and depressing to me, because of the injustice. We had seen the movie on TV and he wanted to get more details. To me, the movie was enough."
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