James Munroe was a cool cat. He took his prison sentence without blinking and by the fourth year he had made it. Then a youngster named Dido moved into his cell block and Munroe's shell began to crumble
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James Munroe was a cool cat. He took his prison sentence without blinking and by the fourth year he had made it. Then a youngster named Dido moved into his cell block and Munroe's shell began to crumble
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Fair. some wear at the edges and a small piece missing at the top front edge at the spine about the size of a quarter. some chips at the edges still tight, no markings.
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Book. Octavo; G/Fair-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, black with white print; DJ has edgewear with tears at spine ends and flap corners, tears to flap folds, toning to spine, peripheral toning, shelfwear; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and blue paper to boards, wear to spine caps and corners, mildly cocked spine, toning to top edge; Text block clean and tight; 346 pages. 1357398. FP New Rockville Stock.
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New York. 1952. Coward-McCann. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Boards. No Dustjacket. 346 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Prison African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Jim looks between the cold-gray bars of his cell seeing the red sun flashing through the naked branches of a distant tree. It is all that he can see of the outside from the small cell he shares with three others who, like himself, are going to spend many years in a single room. A prisoner knows upon his first arrival in prison that he is losing time. Time is the one thing that can never be replaced; the element that can never be compensated for by any little victories lurking in the imagination. He knows, or thinks that he knows, that his prison is a place where normal men of normal appetites and desires are shut off from their natural yearnings as a punishment for attacks on a cruel, uninterested society. He thinks that he will be a normal man shut off from intercourse with normal human beings. It is here that he is wrong. For it will be only after time-something quite different in prison than out-has passed that he slowly awakens to the fact that he is not simply a man locked up. Prison is not only keeping him from contact with his fellow humans; it is making him into something else. A man-if a prisoner can be called a man-who thinks, feels, and loves differently from other men. Jim Munroe is the prisoner in CAST THE FIRST STONE. In prison for twenty years, he tells his own story in this powerful novel-a novel that is big, brutal, and vicious, startlingly revealing, and, best of all perhaps, enormously compassionate. Jim Munroe shows you how a prisoner faces years, years to think, to live, to suffer, to yearn, to strive for what he considers good. Mostly good is outside of the walls, for inside are only the dreams that germinate in the dark corners of his mind-dreams that come to a fulfillment that is even worse than frustration. inventory #26871.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Coward McCann, (1952). First Edition. Near fine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. First printing; edgewear, closed tears and soiling to dust jacket with $3.75 price intact; page edges darkened; o/w VG+/VG+