Scottsboro Boy by Patterson, Haywood; Conrad, Earl - 1950

Victor Gollancz, 1950. Good. First. .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's name and address are written on the front free endpaper. The front and rear free endpapers are stained from old dust jacket protector tape. The dust jacket has some tape shadow on the flaps, light edge wear, including two short tears. The price, $3.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector..

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket with several closed tears.. First printing. Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro Boys, told his story to Earl Conrad, scholar and journalist of black America, after his escape from prison and while he was still being hunted for a crime he did not commit. The book begins with the fight in the train and the trial, but focuses on PattersonÕs experience in numerous Alabama prisons. 309pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1950. 309pp. Dustwrapper with minor wear at tips. First Edition This is the autobiography of Haywood Patterson who was one of the accused in the famous Scottsboro rape case of the 1931. "On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked them off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the negro kids had raped two prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on the same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case." Patterson tells his story of Alabama prison farms and jails and his ultmate escape from a term of life in prison. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.