Description: Jack BlackYou Can't Win New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926 First edition, first printing. Hardcover, 394., 8 x 5.5 inches Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Minor silverfishing to cloth at extreme top and bottom edges of boards, mild acidification to endpapers, small spot to fore-edge of first few leaves. Dust jacket somewhat dust soiled with a few small nicks to extremities. A particularly presentable copy of the infamous autobiography of hobo and yeggman (safecracker) Jack Black. Originally published as a series of newspaper articles in the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, about which novelist Harry Leon Wilson wrote, "As a human document it is of great value and stands far above anything of the sort I have encountered." The narrative follows Black's adventurous life during turn of the century America and focuses on the criminal underbelly and freight-hopping subcultures, where he encounters alcoholics, opium addicts, gamblers, prostitutes, and criminals. Black develops a personal "code of the streets" which influenced 20th century luminaries such as William Burroughs and Nelson Algren, among others. Mast Books is a bookstore and gallery space located in New York City's East Village, established in 2010. We specialize 20th and 21st century art and artists' books, photography, design, fashion, cinema, and quality editions of post-WWII poetry & literature. Shipping All books shipped within the US are sent USPS Media Mail, Priority shipping available per request. Orders are shipped within 48hrs of purchase & delivery takes typically 7 to 10 business days. International mail is available to EU. The cost will be calculated at buyer's request and will be shipped via USPS First Class Mail International - registered mail required. Buyer pays exact cost.
Price: 5000 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2025-01-01T21:04:23.000Z
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