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Private, 1948. Paperback. Good-. . 6x8. GOOD-. Orange paperback. Approx. 8" x 5". Bumps/chips to edges and corners. Rub wear, dust markings and light scratches to covers. Bagged for protection with a stiff backing board, chips/creases to spine at staples, tiny chips to edges, corner creases,.<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.

Terrell, TX: Bill Mills, 1951. Paperback. 59, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 8x5.5 inches. Leaves browned; spine chipped; covers creased. Good. Autobiography of a Texas convict who found God and made his way around the country lecturing. The author recounts his experiences incarcerated at Texas State Penitentiary. Discusses the dire conditions on Sugar Land Farms, meals, corporal punishment at the hands of guards, efforts at modernization and reform, and solicits schools and churches to hire Mills as a speaker to deter juvenile delinquency. Mills first published the book in 1938 and 1939 in OK and TX. This includes two pages updated to 1951.

private, 1951. First edition first printing softcover. SIGNED BY MILLS BELOW HIS NAME IN THE AFTERWORD. Very good in stiff yellow wrappers with black print some staining to back cover

N. P.: Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1948)., 1948. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Blue printed, stapled wrappers, 59 pp., illustrated. Born in Rains County, Texas. Beginning in 1910, at 17 years of age, the author served 5 prison terms in Texas, 1 in Oklahoma, and 1 in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Mills was convicted of various crimes including horse theft, armed robbery, and counterfeiting. This interesting account gives much detail of the brutality of life in Texas prisons and prison farms. Information of prison breaks in Oklahoma and Texas is also related. Light wear to the spine ends, small old water stain to a portion of the covers, else interior is clean and tight, else a very good copy.

N. P.: Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1948)., 1948. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Blue printed, stapled wrappers, 59 pp., illustrated. Born in Rains County, Texas. Beginning in 1910, at 17 years of age, the author served 5 prison terms in Texas, 1 in Oklahoma, and 1 in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Mills was convicted of various crimes including horse theft, armed robbery, and counterfeiting. This interesting account gives much detail of the brutality of life in Texas prisons and prison farms. Information of prison breaks in Oklahoma and Texas is also related. Light wear to the spine ends, small old water stain to a portion of the covers, else interior is clean and tight, else a very good copy.

NP: Privately printed, n.d., n.d.. First edition. First edition or early reprint? Stiff printed wrappers, 56pp., frontis. Born in Rains County, Texas. Beginning in 1910, at 17 years of age, the author served 5 prison terms in Texas, 1 in Oklahoma, and 1 in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Mills was convicted of various crimes including horse theft, armed robbery, and counterfeiting. This interesting account gives much detail of the brutality of life in Texas prisons and prison farms. Information of prison breaks in Oklahoma and Texas is also related. Very good. Very scarce.