Life and Death in Sing Sing by Lawes, Lewis E - 1937-01-01

Name penned on end paper. Pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. White paint mark on spine, two small spots on boards but minimal wear and tight binding.

Garden City NY Garden City Publishing, 1928, hardcover. Reprint edition, as Star Books. The author was warden of the prison. Illustrated with photos. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (corners and spine tips bumped; faint stains rear-cover; no jacket).

Garden City Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1928. fair to good. 267, illus., tables, some foxing to text and inside boards, partial bookplate inside front board, some wear to board and spine edges. Some white paint on edge of rear board, small tears to cloth at top and bottom of spine, board corners bumped. The author was the warden at Sing Sing, having started his career as a prison guard.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings in a library binding. Cover shows minor wear, pages are tanned and mostly clean.

Doubleday, Doran & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Binding sound, titles readable. Inner pages unmarked. B/w frontis photo.; 267 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. 8vo. xviii, [2] 268 pp. Bound in full black cloth, stamped in red and black on cover and spine, top edge stained red, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations. Lawes was warden at Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941 and, throughout his career, was a vocal proponent of prison reform writing several books on the subject. Very Good+, minor age-toning to pages, internally clean, hinges tight, minor rubbing and wear to extremities of binding, the scarce dust jacket is in Fair condition with stamp in black ink to middle of spine, 1" piece missing at lower corner of front cover with 2" tear continuing upwards, 2" x 4" piece missing from head of spine around rear cover, several small chips and creasing to extremities, soiling and wear overall. Attractive, solid copy in scarce dust jacket.