You Can't Win
by Black, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Gently rubbed to extremities, toning especially to end papers, previous owner's label pasted to title page (not affecting titles
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Gently rubbed to extremities, toning especially to end papers, previous owner's label pasted to title page (not affecting titles), dust jacket chipped with small areas of loss not affecting titles, creased, slightly soiled, marked in ink to front "Oct 5th", else fine. JBS-119. Jack Black. Robert Herrick, foreword. You Can't Win. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition.
Twelvemo. 394pp. Publisher's red cloth hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spine, blind stamped frames to front, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of $2.00.
This scarce memoir of criminal life by hobo and burglar Jack Black was an early influence on the Beat Generation writers and was known to be a particular favorite of William S. Burroughs, who wrote the introduction to the later reprint edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119
- Title
- You Can't Win
- Author
- Black, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Gently rubbed to extremities, toning especially to end papers, previous owner's label pasted to title page (not affecting titles
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Drugs, Crime, Memoirs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
InkQ Rare Books LLC
Biblio member since 2024
Addison, Texas
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