Hoffman, Ethan; McCoy, John

Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla [HARDCOVER 1ST EDITON & 1ST PRINTING WITH DUST JACKET - FINE COPY];

University of Missouri Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. University of Missouri Press, Missouri 1981. Hardcover in Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to, 196 pages with numerous Black & White photographic. Text in English. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket with signs of light rubbing from shelf wear , Light wear to head and heel of spine and a small wrinkle to upper/center margin of front panel (presents nicely in a new, clear Brodart protector).

Brutal and intimate portrait of screws, cons, visitors, prison wives at Washington State Penitentiary, considered at the time to be the worst prison in the U.S. Inside Concrete Mama, as McCoy and Hoffman showed without editorial comment or first-person intrusion, some men worked on and rode motorcycles, kept pets, dressed as women, negotiated shaky arrangements with prison officials and roamed the yards in total leisure. "They went inside the walls, they looked, they listened, they learned, they sought to understand . ." Fine / fine. Item #11246

Price: $250.00