Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
by Jessica Mitford
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
Item Price
A$247.90A$148.74
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/VG, Book is clean, unmarked, slight discoloration at bottom of the first flyleaf. Colorful jacket . Jacket has 1 inch tear at top right corner of front cover, edges lightly bumped at spine. Orange and red lettering on the black dust jacket spine with a white and illustrated cover. 340 pages. Prisons focus on punishment, not rehabilitation. Here are the weird chemical, surgical, and psychiatric techniques now being used to help "violent" prisoners to be "reborn". Stated: "First and Second printings before publication" .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000141
- Title
- Kind & Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
- Author
- Jessica Mitford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Hardback, Jessica Mitford, Punishment, Prison, Bussiness
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About the Seller
Supercalifabulistic Books
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Mena, Arkansas
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...