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Memoir of a "Crook", by Samuel Bailey, 1889

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Memoir of a "Crook", by Samuel Bailey, 1889

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Author: Bailey, Samuel
Title: Ups and Downs of a "Crook's" Life
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Published by the Author
Date Published: 1889
Description:

150 pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of author. 18.5x11.5 cm (7¼x4½"), original blue cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind.

Memoir written during the author's 5-year prison sentence for forgery. Filled with charming slang and provides a view into criminal life in the late 1800s.

Condition

Slight rubbing and soiling to cloth, touches of fading to gilt; hinges cracked or starting, binding tight, dampstain affecting small strip at top right margin; very good.

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Memoir of a "Crook", by Samuel Bailey, 1889

Name: Memoir of a \"Crook\", by Samuel Bailey, 1889
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