First edition. Signed on the title page by J. Evetts Haley. Cloth, xvi, 210 pp., black & white frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, index. Illustrated by Theda Rhea. Well-written story chronicling the life of John Harvey Bailey, America's most successful bank robber. Bailey was called "The Dean of American Bank Robbers," was a long-time criminal robbing over a million dollars in the 1920s and 30s. He knew such noted crime figures as Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed at spine ends, corners, and extremities. Seller Inventory # 44694

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Title: ROBBING BANKS WAS MY BUSINESS. THE STORY OF ...

Publisher: Palo Duro Press, 1973., Canyon

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and rare books dealing with Mystery and Western Americana, to include Railroading and Ephemeral items. Books in the mystery field include not only Mystery, but also Detective Fiction and Espionage. Our Western Americana Section offers books about the development of the American West. All books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.

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