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ON THE ROCK; 25 YEARS IN ALCATRAZ BY: ALVIN KARPIS
ON THE ROCK; 25 YEARS IN ALCATRAZ BY: ALVIN KARPIS
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FEATURES: ON THE ROCK; 25 YEARS IN ALCATRAZ BY: ALVIN KARPIS
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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: FAIR - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$14.95] BRODART
C) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - MUSSON BOOK COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1980
D) NOTE: KARPIS, A LEADING MEMBER OF NOTORIOUS BARKER GANG, DESCRIBES HIS EXPERIENCES AT PRISON OVER A QUARTER CENTURY. DUST JACKET CHIPPED AND CREASED. 306 PAGES.
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BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES:
FINE
VERY GOOD
GOOD
FAIR
POOR
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ON THE ROCK; 25 YEARS IN ALCATRAZ BY: ALVIN KARPIS
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"In the history of crime the FBI tagged only four men as Public Enemy No.1 - John DIllinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Canadian-born Alvin Karpis. All but Karpis met violent ends. In 1936 the FBI arrested Karpis in New Orleans. He received a 'life' sentence on a kidnapping charge to be served in the mysterious superprison in San Francisco Bay - Alcatraz.
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For thirty years Alcatraz housed America's most dangerous criminals, and inside the walls and cells bloody death, sexual perversity, and the brutality of guards were commonplace. Karpis describes the black hole - solitary confinement - and tells of the violent deaths of the cons who failed in their bids for freedom. On the Rock is Karpis's personal story of the desperate and insane who lead a timeless existence deep in the rock of Alcatraz Island."--Cover.
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"Possibly as authentic an account as you'll ever see of life in a maximum security prison. Highly recommended." "When his daughter visited him in prison and he says she was the first woman he had seen in twenty-five years - that blew my mind. One of the great English language writers of the 20th century; leaves Dumas, Paul Brickhill and Epictetus in the dust."
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