Edité par Retort Press, Bearsville, NY, 1950
Vendeur : Seacoast Books, Portsmouth, NH, Etats-Unis
Wraps. Etat : Very Good. 6 3/8" x 9 7/16", 138 pp., gray card covers with black illustration and titling to front, black cloth spine. First Edition. Limited Edition. Illustrated by Lowell Naeve. The prison wisdom of 15 ex-inmates, a book praised by the great Aldous Huxley. From the preface by Christopher Isherwood: "Maybe you will never go to prison, either willingly or unwillingly. Maybe you disagree completely with the stand which these men took. . . . But . . . the problems raised by this book extend far beyond the usual categories of 'right' and 'wrong,' expediency and inexpediency. They touch all our lives. . . . I wish it could be read by everybody in the United States." This copy in Very Good condition with only minor wear, soiling, a few small marks and small corner bumps/creases; see photo enlarged. Internally clean with only age-toning to page edges. The book was originally bound with black cloth tape on the spine; this is not a repair, even though it has a 'home-made' look to it (that's because it was - using a Gordon upright footpedal press, etc.). Very Good.
Edité par Retort Press., Bearsville, NY, 1950
Vendeur : Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
Edition originale
First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed boards with taped cloth spine (as issued); in Dust Jacket. 138 pp. Illustrated throughout by Lowell Naeve. Minor stains; a very good copy in a good dust jacket that shows some staining and has pronounced chips, primarily at the spine tips. An uncommon book, rare in the dust jacket. A manual of lliving-technique for prisoners. A home-made production, poorly printed and bound. Written entirely by members of the extreme pacifist minority who resisted US conscription during World War II. With a Preface by Isherwood, the perishable and rare dust jacket also bears a blurb by Aldous Huxley on the rear panel, praising the book.