Lewis E Lawes (87 results)
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Published by Privately Printed, U.S.A., 1934
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B/W Photos with B/W Illustrations, 3 Page Introduction, 2 Staples in the Spine, Light Damp Staining to the Very Page Edges, No Soiling No Foxing No Smells, light shelf rubbings to the corner tips.
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Published by Lewis Lawes, New York, 1934
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lewis Edward Lawes (1883-1947) was the warden for 21 years at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility on the Hudson River in New York and supervised the executions of 303 prisoners. This book, with a cut-out cover that resembles prison bars, recounts "strange stories" and includes illustrations and…photos from inside the prison.
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Published by Sing Sing, U.S.A., 1934
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 Staples in the Spine, B/W Illustrations & B/W Photography.
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Published by Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Inc.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. None. Staplebound pamphlet. Tanning, rubbing and edgewear. ; 27 pages.
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Published by Doubleday Doran Co
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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The World's Work, Vol. 56, No. 4 (August, 1928). High Adventure Number
Dickey, Carl C. (editor); Pringle, Henry F.; Wilkins, George H.; Maitland, Lester J.; Crowther, Samuel; Lawes, Lewis E.; Beaverbrook, Lord; Wilhelm, Donald; MacAdam, George; Harris, Richard; A British Aviator; Thomas, Lowell
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NJ, 1928
- Softcover
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Slightly cocked, sound binding. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wrappers have edge wear with overall shelf wear, some tattering at spine. Full-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back of wrappers. Contents: Pringle, Barbecues in Politics. Wilkins, "No Foxes Seen" (log of Arctic flying adventures). Maitland, Kni…ghts of the Air. Crowther, Henry Ford Talks about Edsel (and Edsel talks about his father). Lawes, Who Is a Criminal - and Why? Beaverbrook, Political Battles of the World War. Wilhelm, Working with Hoover. MacAdam, Where White Men Travel Alone. Harris, New Styles in Lumberjacks. A British Aviator, With the British Air Patrol in Irak. Thoams, Raiders of the Deep. Reviews. Many black and white advertisements for railroad equipment, automobiles and other items. Cover art, frontispiece; 9.5" tall; 231 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Illustrated by Adolph Treidler, J. S. Woolf (illustrator).
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Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
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The World's Work, Volume 56, Number 1 (May 1928)
Dickey, Carl C. (ed.); Kent, Frank R.; Thomas, Lowell; Sullivan, Mark; Lawes, Lewis E.; Fishbein, Morris; Simons, Gilbert; Hall, Alvin W.; Tittle, Walter; Wiggam, Albert Edward; Taft, Charles P. II; Graves, Robert
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1928
- Softcover
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wraps have general light wear, light overall soiling. Contents: Frontispiece, Henry L. Stimson. The March of Events. Kent, Maryland - A Perfect State? Thomas, Raiders of the Deep: The Beginning of the War on Allied Commerce. Sullivan, The Presidential Race. Lawes, Life and Death in…Sing Sing. Fishbein, Alcohol in the Practice of Medicine. Simons, Christ in the Movies. Hall, New Styles in Paper Money. Tittle, A Champion of Evolution. Wiggam, Science Measures Morals. Taft, So This Is Justice: See What Newspapers and Juries Have Done to It! Graves, The Making of a Conqueror: Lawrence's Preparation for the Leadership of the Desert Hosts. The Workshop. Books. Lawrence Chamberlain, Diversification, the Alchemy of Investment. In addition to the 112 pages of text, there are many pages of advertisements, most in black and white but some in color. 10.25" tall; 112 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
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Published by Strawberry-Hill Press, Inc, 1933
- Softcover
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Stapled wraps, has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, uneven toning with foxing to the covers, wear to the edges, cross creasing along the spine, foxing with smudging to the pages, a snag torn to the fore edge of p. 7-8, and rusting to the binding staples that affects the pages. Overal…l, this is a solid, Fair only copy.
Language: English
Published by Harper And Brothers, New York, 1938
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Light Wear, Bright, Foxing On Edges Of Page Block.
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Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
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Published by Strawberry Hill Press, 1933
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fred M. Wacholz, Elkhart, IN, U.S.A.Fred M. Wacholz
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good booklet, No D.J., Stiff paper cover, green, dark green title. # staple spine binding, no loose pages or previous owner's marks found. Test is clean and bright unmarked with B+W photos throughout 27 pages.
Published by Self-published by the author, [Ossining], 1934
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. 35p., 4.5x6.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and b&w photos, front wrap stained else very good first edition in stapled wraps with die-cut design of prison bars. A collection of true stories from the infamous prison.
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Published by A.L. Burt Company, New York and Chicago, 1932
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Seller: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, U.S.A.Books on the Square
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1932. 1st Edition. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean copy in original blue cloth covers. Spine ends just lightly bumped. 412pp. Sm 8vo. (E).
LIFE AND DEATH IN SING SING. Garden City Publishing Company Star Books series.
Lawes, Lewis E. [Lewis Edward Lawes], 1883-1947. Adolph Lewisohn, 1849-1938 (Foreword).
Published by Garden City, NY: Star Books - Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., [1928]., 1928
- Hardcover
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerReprint (first published by Doubleday, Doran and Company in 1928). Paged as i-ii, [frontis], iii-x, xiii-xx, 1-267. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket front panel separated from spine; chipping to spine ends and panel corners; rubbing and soiling as well as nicks, scuffs, creasing, and tears; dj now presented in a myl…ar Brodart protector. Black cloth; orange stamping to spine and front board; some fraying/bumping to spine ends and board corners. Muted red top edge; toning to deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Endpapers toned; some interior foxing/toning interior leaves mostly remain clean. Binding is firm.
More imagesPublished by Lewis E. Lawer, 1934
- Softcover
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
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Wraps. Condition: very good. Stapled wrappers.16mo (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") 35pp. with drawings and photographs. Some chipping at bottom edges of front cover.
Published by Self-published, [Ossining, New York], 1934
- Softcover
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Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.Cleveland Book Company, ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Very good +. First Edition. 12mo, 31pp., illustrated. A very good or better copy in the original black wraps with cut-outs to imitate prison bars. Trivial creasing and one 1/4-inch closed tear to the middle of the front wrap, else a bright, clean copy.
- Softcover
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More imagesPublished by Self-published by the author, [Ossining], 1934
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. 35p., 4.5x6.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and b&w photos, staples rusted else very good first edition in stapled wraps with die-cut design of prison bars. A collection of true stories from the infamous prison.
Published by Strawberry-Hill Press, Inc., New York, 1933
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Barry Cassidy Rare Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's light green paper wrappers with staple binding. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4." Twenty-seven pages, complete. A few black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for the occasional small mark. Covers are clean and intact overall but have age t…oning along the edges, slight offsetting on back, a few minuscule foxing spots at top edge on front, and rust stains from the staples on the spine. A Very Good copy. A unique publication about life at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York by Lewis Edward Lawes (1883-1947), who worked at Sing Sing as a prison warden for twenty-one years. Lawes oversaw the executions of 303 prisoners but was also an advocate of prison reform. In this pamphlet, Lawes makes his case for the importance of prison reform and proceeds to summarize what life is like at Sing Sing.
Published by Garden City Publishing Company
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Published by The New Home Library, 1942
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1942 reprint. Hardcover w/dust jacket. NF/VG. Book has only minor shelf rubbing and some age toning marks on endpapers. Jacket has edge rubbing wear, short tears, reverse side tape repairs on some parts of the edges, but is basically whole. 412 pages.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, U.S.A., 1935
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Assumed first edition. Ex-library with the usual markings. No jacket. Covers and spine are quite battered and worn. Some pages slightly wrinkled from moisture but all pages are in good condition.
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Published by Lewis E. Lawes, Ossining, NY, 1933
- First Edition
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Pamphlet. Condition: Good. [2], 27, [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover worn and soiled. Scarce. The author was the prison's warden. Lewis Edward Lawes (September 13, 1883 - April 23, 1947) was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21-year tenure at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he supervised the executions… of 303 prisoners. He worked at first Auburn Prison, then Elmira Reformatory. In March 1915 he was named Superintendent of the City Reformatory on Hart Island in New York City. Lawes became warden of the Massachusetts State Prison in 1918. New York Governor Al Smith asked him to take over as Warden of Sing Sing. Lawes took charge on January 1, 1920. He was featured on the cover and in an article of Time magazine issue of November 18, 1929. Lawes wrote several books. Several of his works were made into films. His most famous book, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, was made into a 1932 movie under the same title, starring Spencer Tracy, and again in 1940 as Castle on the Hudson, featuring John Garfield. Invisible Stripes in 1939, with George Raft, was based on his novel of the same name, while Humphrey Bogart starred in You Can't Get Away with Murder in 1939, an adaptation of Chalked Out, a play Lawes co-wrote. His papers are archived in the Special Collections of the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, in the U.S. state of New York. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. In 1970, the name of the facility was changed to "Ossining Correctional Facility" but, in 1985, it reverted to its original name. "Sing Sing" was derived from the name of a Native American Nation, "Sinck Sinck" (or "Sint Sinck"), from whom the land was purchased in 1685. Sing Sing prison confines about 1,700 prisoners. There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a time specific museum. The prison property is bisected by the Metro-North Railroad's four-track Hudson Line. Sing Sing was the fifth prison built by New York State. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former Army captain, the task of constructing a new prison. Lynds decided to build a prison on Mount Pleasant, near (and thus named after) a small village in Westchester County named Sing Sing, whose name came from the Native American words "Sinck Sinck" which translates to "stone upon stone".[9] The legislature appropriated $20,100 to purchase the 130-acre (0.53 km2) site, and the project received the official stamp of approval. Lynds hand-selected 100 inmates from the Auburn prison for transfer and had them transported by barge via the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to freighters. When it was opened in 1826, Sing Sing was considered a model prison, because it turned a profit for the state, and by October 1828, was finally completed. A notable warden was Lewis Lawes. He was offered the position of warden in 1919, accepted in January 1920, and remained for 20 years as Sing Sing's warden. While warden, Lawes brought about reforms and turned what was described as an "old hellhole" into a modern prison with sports teams, educational programs, new methods of discipline and more. Several new buildings were also constructed during the years Lawes was warden. Lawes retired in 1941 after 21 years as warden and died six years later. The original 1825 cellblock is no longer used and in 2002 plans were announced to turn this into a museum. In total, 614 men and women-including four inmates under federal death sentences-were executed by electric chair in the death row house with "Old Sparky", at Sing Sing. High-profile executions include Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953, for espionage for the Soviet Union on nuclear weapon research; and Gerhard A. Puff on August 12, 1954, for murder of an FB.
Published by The New Home Library
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.
