Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Alcatraz Island Memories.

HURLEY, Donald J.

Sonoma, CA: Fog Bell Enterprises, [1990]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. i, 150pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faintest of edgewear, with bumped outer edge slightly wrinkling some pages. Item #39460
ISBN: 0962054607

A tight and decent fifth printing of this account of life aboard "The Rock" for the son of a correctional officer assigned there from 1942 to 1953. Signed and inscribed large and bold by the author in black ballpoint on copyright page: "To Don & / Mary Ellen -- / Best Wishes / From / Alcatraz / Island / Donald J Hurley / August 23, 1990."

Price: $17.50