THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY McCUNE.
by McCune, Billy (1929-2007); introduction by Danny Lyon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover./black cloth in a good only
- ISBN 10
- 0879320494
- ISBN 13
- 9780879320492
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco:: Straight Arrow Books,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover.. First printing. An indictment of our prison system - McCune, a "low IQ" man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death although his sentence was eventually commuted (but not until after he mutilated himself), and even after the commutation he spent months in isolationm but despite this he continued to write his story. Illustrated with photographs by Lyon, who also wrote the introduction. Many of McCune's drawings were included in Lyon's 1971 book 'Conversations with the Dead." 154 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88516
- Title
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY McCUNE.
- Author
- McCune, Billy (1929-2007); introduction by Danny Lyon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover.
- Jacket Condition
- black cloth in a good only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879320494
- ISBN 13
- 9780879320492
- Publisher
- Straight Arrow Books,
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco:
- Date Published
- (1973)
- Keywords
- true crime, prison, photographs, texas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - autobiography - memoirs;
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