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Blood in My Eye
by George L. Jackson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394479815
- ISBN 13
- 9780394479811
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition (stated) first print (full Random House number line) hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, prior damp to lower corners of each end paper gutter, some offsetting to end papers; tight bind; cover has thin sunning along top edge, faint prior damp at spine heel, vivid titling; dj has sun fade along spine and edge wear (small nicks at spine head); prior damp at dj spine heel with bleed to inside surface of dj at heel of spine; flap price present amsbibab
Synopsis
Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it’s author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He was to spent the rest of his life -- eleven years-- in the California prison system, seven in solitary confinement. In prison, he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918360
- Title
- Blood in My Eye
- Author
- George L. Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394479815
- ISBN 13
- 9780394479811
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972-01
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