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- Edition:
- Harper & Brothers
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Hardcover,
Good
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- Details:
- Edition:
First Edition
- Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
- Language:
English
- Alibris ID:
15831828654
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- Seller's Description:
- Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Discolouration Where Stickers Were Once Affixed (Front and Rear Boards); Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: The Autobiography of a Professional Criminal. ALSO KNOWN AS: A small portion of this book in different form appeared in two magazines: "Criminal At Large" in The Saturday Evening Post, copyright, 1950, by The Curtis Publishing Company, and "A Burglar's Advice" in McCall's Magazine, Copyright, 1950, by McCall Company. EXCERPT: (NOTE: This book is a criminal's own life story. It is his own account of the adventures of his life and his own exposition of his point of view, the criminal point of view. The book is all fact. I have, however, changed the criminal's name and the names of other characters and places in order to protect living people...The idea of making this book grew slowly. As from time to time he mentioned things that had happened to him, I became interested not only in his viewpoint but in the story of his life...Among the crimes he confesses are: petty larceny, grand larceny, burglary, possession of burglar's tools, safe-blowing, arson, assault with intent to kill, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, armed robbery, vagrancy, auto theft, violation of the Dyer Act prohibiting interstate transportation of a stolen car, bootlegging and violating numerous statues connected therewith, frequenting and operating a gaming place, bribery, subornation of perjury, perjury, jury tampering, assault, receiving stolen property, carrying concealed weapons, conspiracy, fugitive from justice. He may have done other things...This book, then, is his own. It is told in his words. It is not an "as told to" book. I have not written it. My main contribution has been that of a reporter--I gained his confidence so he would talk to me freely and I interviewed him so as to draw him out. Because I determined to let him speak freely, the better to reveal himself, I have not edited out things he says that seem to me mistaken or repugnant. I ask, then, to be absolved of responsibility for his opinions. It is time to let him speak. --John Bartlow Martin. )
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