Sample Albert Race Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. EX-LIBRARY Copy with DISCARD stamps and a card pocket. Spine cocked, edge wear. The dust jacket is in protective Mylar and adhered to the endpapers. 320 pages with two black and white photos of the author, one as a young soldier and one from years later that matches the photo on the back of the jacket. SIGNED "Race Sample" on the front free endpaper. This is Sample's autobiography about growing up the son of a white redneck father and a black prostitute mother, alienation from society, the sub-human brutality of seventeen years in the Texas prison system, and his incredible turnaround to become the first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Governor's office. He became a noted speaker and was appointed division head for a department in the City of Austin. He has received awards for his service in the corrections field and rehabilitation of ex-offenders, and in 1981 he was recognized as the Outstanding Crime Prevention Citizen in Texas. Racehoss was the prison name he finally came to accept. He even had his name changed to include the middle name Race. A sound, affordable reading copy signed by the author, but graded only Fair with the library markings. B37. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1984. PLEASE NOTE: This is the 1984 FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION. It is INSCRIBED / SIGNED and dated 5/7/84 by the AUTHOR, Race Sample, directly on front pastedown endpaper. It is also SIGNED there by Amber Sample. Very Good condition (with only minor shelfwear to the cover) in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($14.95). The jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Bound in the original gilt-stamped dark red textured boards. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher of a later printing: "A timeless classic (San Antonio Express-News) about a black man who spent seventeen years on a brutal Texas prison plantation and underwent a remarkable transformation. [He was pardoned in 1976]. First published in 1984, Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy is Albert Race Sample's unforgettable (The Dallas Morning News) tale of resilience, revelation, and redemption. Born in 1930, the mixed-race son of a hard-drinking black prostitute and a white cotton broker, Sample was raised in the Jim Crow South by an abusive mother who refused to let her son -- who could pass for white -- call her Mama. He watched for the police while she worked, whether as a prostitute, bootlegger, or running the best dice game in town. He loved his mother deeply but could no longer take her abuse and ran away from home at the age of twelve. In his early twenties, Sample was arrested for burglary, robbery, and robbery by assault and was sentenced to nearly twenty years in the Texas prison system in the 1950s and 60s. His light complexion made him stand out in the all-black prison plantation known as the burnin' hell, where he and over four hundred prisoners picked cotton and worked the land while white shotgun-carrying guards followed on horseback. Sample earned the moniker Racehoss for his ability to hoe cotton faster than anyone else in his squad. A profound spiritual awakening in solitary confinement was a decisive moment for him, and he became determined to turn his life around. When he was finally released in 1972, he did just that. Though Sample was incarcerated in the twentieth century, his memoir reads like it came from the nineteenth. As remarkable as Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy.These stories are worthy of Twain, Faulkner, and Lardner (Chicago Tribune). An outcast's eloquent testament to life (Pulitzer PrizeÂÂwinning author, Studs Terkel).". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Race Sample. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii, 320pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.