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On the Yard
por Braly, Malcolm
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 344pp. Black cloth stamped in red on the spine panel. Signed and inscribed by Braly on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "Christmas / 1967 / To Mordecai / All fortune among the Phillistines. (sic) / Malcolm." Upper corner of text block and lower corner of rear board slightly bruised. A very good+ copy in good+ dustjacket with chipping along the edges, two larger chips and toning to the spine panel and rear panel, front flap partially split at fold. A sobering account of prison life in San Quentin in the early 1960s. Considered by Kurt Vonnegut to be "the great American prison novel". In Hubin, 1994, p. 96. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
Sinopse
Malcolm Braly (1925–1980) was born in Portland, Oregon. Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary, serving time at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. He wrote three novels behind bars, Felony Tank (1961), Shake Him Till He Rattles (1963), and It’s Cold Out There (1966), and upon his release in 1965 began to work on On the Yard . When prison authorities learned of the book they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly’s parole had expired, On the Yard received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons (1976), and a final work of fiction, The Protector (1979). Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four. Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude . He lives in Brooklyn and in Maine.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 23969
- Título
- On the Yard
- Autor
- Braly, Malcolm
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Little, Brown and Company
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 1967
- Palavras-chave
- CRIME, PRISON LIFE, SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Mysteries and Thrillers;
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Schenectady, New York
Sobre Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
Parigi Books, established in 2006, is an independent antiquarian bookstore located in the heart of Schenectady, NY. We are open by appointment only.We buy and sell fine books and collectibles in all fields with a strong focus on science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, comics and graphic novels. Our eclectic taste is reflected in the ample variety of items available, from significant titles from the 1500s on to original comic art, from collectible paperbacks to literary magazines. We carry in stock the best selection of Italian language graphic novels and comics you can find this side of the pond.As fairly strict graders who pay particular attention to collecting standards, we have been able to make thousands of customers happy over the years.Parigi Books is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), and the Independent Online Booksellers' Association (IOBA).
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Inscribed
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