Earl Ellicott Dudding (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is tattered with edges torn and pieces missing. Code on the lower of front flap was crossed out with another code stamped above it. Exterior boards are clean and show almost no wear. No signatures or bookplates noted. Front end page shows faint evidence wear a price was once penciled along top edge. Binding is good, no hinge cracks, no torn or loose pages. Small piece of rear section of dust jacket is detached has seen in the photos. A few pages near the back of the book have a small section of the lower corner edge folded in, which likely was like this from the publisher. First edition thus.

Full title - THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD YEARS; DUDDING'S GRIPPING STORY OF HIS OWN LIFE EXPERIENCE IS STRANGER THAN FICTION, TRUER THAN LIFE, SADDER THAN DEATH, MORE TRIUMPHANT THAN FAME AND FORTUNE. ILLUMINATING AND STARTLING ARE HS THEORIES OF THE CHEMISTRY OF SIN, CRIME, PUNISHMENT, BIRTH CONTROL, THE LAND OF ETERNAL DREAMS, AND NUMEROUS OTHER VITAL SUBJECTS. x, 342 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16cm. No dust jacket present. Blue cloth; mottling to boards and spine; some dulling and flaking to spine's gilt lettering but all still legible; front board's gilt lettering still fairly bright. Some toning and foxing to leaves. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hard Cover. Poor/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 342 p. Many poetical selections, photos, etchings, appendix, index. Foxing to endpapers. Shaken. Shelf wear, & stain to tail of front cover near spine joint. Dust jacket heavily soiled; 4" tear to rear DJ spine joint; 1/2" piece missing at head of DJ spine. Dr. Dudding, founder of the Prisoners Relief Society, gives his theories about crime, punishment, prison reform, marriage, divorce, birth control, the future life, and other subjects - following research, investigation, experience, and personal contact with convicts, both in and out of prison.

Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 342 p. Many poetical selections, photos, etchings, appendix, index. Tear to tail margin of page 201. Foxing. Soil & wear to cover; spine chips. Dr. Dudding, founder of the Prisoners Relief Society, gives his theories about crime, punishment, prison reform, marriage, divorce, birth control, the future life, and other subjects - following research, investigation, experience, and personal contact with convicts, both in and out of prison.

Condition: Very Good. apparent first editionsome tanning with age.

Edited by William Winfred Smith. x, 342 pp. Illustrated from Photographs and Etchings. 8vo, publisher's embossed cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in a dust-soiled jacket some shallow chipping and edgewear.

8vo. x, 342 pp. With numerous photo plates, text illustrations. Textured blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine (very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art image of the West Virginia penitentiary gate (minor chipping head & foot of spine, wear to corners), VG/VG copy. First edition of this gripping memoir by former prisoner convicted of manslaughter describing the deplorable conditions of West Virginia Penitentiary which Dudding describes as a vermin-infested "damnation." Of particular interest are his extended essays on metabolic imbalances, poor brain chemistry, and drug abuse as contributing factors to crime, along with unwanted pregnancies, and marrying too young, often resulting in delinquent progeny.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: NoNE. PHOTOS (illustrator). FIRST. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE A VERY RARE SIGNED COPY SIGNATURE HAS AUTHORS ADDRESS AND DATE OF APRIL 17 1933 THIS IS THE STORY OF EARL DUDDING TRIED AND SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN MOUNDSVILLE STATE PRISON HE TELLS OF HIS TIME THERE AND HIS WORK STARTING THE PRISONERS RELIEF SOCIETY INCLUDED ARE HIS THEORIES OF THE CHEMISTRY OF THE BRIAN , CRIME , PUNISHMENT BIRTH CONTROL AND NUMEROUS OTHER VITAL SUBJECTS ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON AMERICAN PRISON REFORM BOUND IN BLUE WITH COMPLETE GOLD LETTERING. BY AUTHOR.

First edition. 8vo. [x], 342 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering, no jacket, owner signature, good condition. (75089). Edited by William Winfred Smith.