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.

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Title: ROBBING BANKS WAS MY BUSINESS. THE STORY OF J. HARVEY BAILEY, AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BANK ROBBER.
Publisher: Palo Duro Press, 1973., Canyon
Publication Date: 1973
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and Rare Books dealing with Western Americana, Ephemera and Mystery. Western Americana includes Maps, Photographs, Letters, Documents, Art, and Ephemeral Material related to the History of the American West, Canada and Northern Mexico. Our Specialties include Cowboys, Cattle and Development of the Range, Mountain Men and the Fur Trade, Frontier Military and Indian Wars, Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West, Native American History and Ethnology, Exploration, Gold Rush, Railroad, Overland, Natural History and Travel. Books in Mystery include Detective Fiction, Golden Age, Espionage, Queen's Quorum, Sherlockiana, Artwork, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, References and PBO. All of the books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.

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