Monahan, Florence (4 results)

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1941 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 318 Language: English Pages: 318.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cover is in good condition, save for slight edge wear, rubbing/fading with age, and corner bumping. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grey octavo, xv, 306 pages, b&w frontispiece (portrait) ; 22 cm. Lady Justice depicted to front board. || Florence Monahan, the leading woman penologist of our country, Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women Criminals at Shakopee Minnesota, presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves. || Women, Crime -- United States. || Contents: Steps to prison -- First lessons in penology -- Who are these women? -- Material for melodrama -- Parole : the invisible chain -- Visitors come to Shakopee -- Geneva, and trouble -- The bad girls -- Pawns in politics -- The vice scandal -- Inmates are individuals -- Tempest in Tehachapi -- Of recreation and unrest -- Poetry in prison -- Medicine and malingerers -- The sex problem -- Some come back -- It's the law! -- Women who kill -- Where common sense counts -- Catastrophe in California -- Conclusions. Very gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, loose thread to spine head, light soiling to boards, very mild bumping to corners, small white stain to rear-rear corner, very mild rubbing to fore-edge, faint water stain to spine, light mark to title page and next two front endpapers, otherwise very bright pages in tight binding, else Very Good. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, very slight bumping at a couple of corners; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities, and the bottom one-third of the spine has gotten scrunched, with resulting wrinkling and chipping at base of spine]. (B&W photo frontispiece) "The leading woman penologist of our country presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves." Ms. Monahan (the stern yet somehow motherly type, to judge from her frontispiece portrait photo) had headed up a number of penal institutions, including the California State Prison for Women at Tehachapi. (At the time of writing she was Superintendent of the Shakopee (Minnesota) State Women's Reformatory, which transitioned to a new facility in 1986 but is still in operation as the state's only women's prison.) She dedicates her book "to the hundreds of women prisoners I have known who are now good citizens." The Foreword is by Lewis E. Lawes, ex-warden of Sing Sing, who was well-known for his own chronicles of penal life ("Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing," et al.). Homosexuality among women prisoners is discussed in Chapter XVI, "The Sex Problem." Very scarce, especially in the jacket.