Cell 2455, Death Row by Chessman. Caryl - 1957

Paperback. Fair. Acceptable, Heavily worn, pages are tanned, has old book smell, marks on top edge, binding is loose, tracking provided

Prentice-Hall, 1954, 1954. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, VG in black boards, white lettering on spine. No jacket. 361 pp. 3rd printing. :Here is the story of a man condemned to death in 1948 ,convicted of robbery, automobile theft, and kidnapping with associated bodily harm. He received the death penalty under the "Little Lindbergh Law" of California in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Mary Alice Meza. He is, or has been by his own admission, a psychopathic hoodlum, a criminal with no pretensions to education or refinement. Yet he still lives while these words are being written (although he may be dead before the book appears) as the result of an almost superhuman effort to master the intricacies of law and stay his own execution indefinitely. For eight years he has defended himself brilliantly -- but he has mastered more than legal profundities. He has found time to read widely, and he has proved himself and natural writer with a… Read More

Perma Book M Series. NY: Pocket Books, Inc. , 1957 2nd. M-4063 near fine paperback,

New York: Permabooks, 1957. 2nd Printing. SC in Pictorial wraps. Very Good. Some chipping and creasing to wraps as shown.. A condemned man's own story" Caryl Chessman was, by the time of his execution in 1960, the author of four books including this title which spurred the movement to abolish the death penalty.

New York: Perma Books, 1960. Pocketbook. Pocketbook. Very good. wraps, 326 pp, wraps creased Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954. First Edition . Black Cloth. Good. 361 pp. A well used copy with a pinpoint of fraying at each of the four tips, spine a bit faded, small owner's label on front endpaper with his name printed below in very large letters in ink.

Longmans Green, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. First Edition Thus. 311 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. Corner to title page torn away. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1956. slight wear to covers and cover edges, owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Longmans, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 7x5x1. The boards are edgeworn and marked.Some light damp marks.One inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

World Distributors, UK, 1957. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 320 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: World Distributors, UK, 1957. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 23050079..