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

Permabooks, 1956. Mass Market Paperback. Good. First Permabooks printing (previously published by Prentice-Hall). Cover price $0.35. Shelf-wear, edgewear. Binding is delicate through the first few pages, sound through text. Pages toned, text unmarked.

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: Perma Books, 1957. 2nd Perma printing. Light creases to the spine. Check mark on the first page.. Paperback. Very Good-.

U.S.: Perma M4063, 1960. Solid with some small corner creases on both covers and the covers show light wear.. 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Permabooks, 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Second Permabooks printing. Cover price $0.35. Shelf-wear, edgewear; small penned notation within the 'C' in the title. Binding sound. Pages toned, text unmarked.

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.

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.

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.