THE MAN CALLED EIGHTY-EIGHTY

by Roy W. Hinds

$300 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Grim underworld novel centered around 20 year-old Harry Pyler, a bank robber and embezzeler convicted and sentenced to hard labor. Upon escaping from prison, he refuses to reform his old ways, joins up with a gang of bank robbers, and hopes to pull off one last big score before going straight. Things end poorly, and Pyler ends up sentenced to 20 years, his

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