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STORY OF A CONDEMNED MAN CHESSMAN, CARYL. Cell 2455 Death Row. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, spine tips faded; dust jacket, some chips to spine panel ends and adjacent lower corner of front panel, overall edge creasing. first edition, inscribed by chessman to his literary agent Joseph Longstreth. New York, (1954)
with-- Another copy. Scattered staining to covers, few stains to front and rear endpapers; lacking dust jacket. Inscribed to Longstreth's parents "whose son did so much to make this book a reality. Caryl Chessman." Chessman's long battle in the courts protesting his innocence while on death row lasted almost 12 years, and he became something of a cause célèbre for the movement to ban capital punishment. He finally went to the gas chamber at San Quentin in 1960.
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