Alcatraz: The Hard Years, 1934-1938. As Recalled by One of the Prison's First Guards and Recorded by His Son

Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1989. No edition stated. Octavo (23cm); printed card wrappers; 132,[4]pp. Light rubbing and wear to extremities, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. "This is a book about Alcatraz before prisoners controlled their own cell lights - before they had radios and talked as they wished. We write here of the prison's first four years, 1934-1938, when the big names and the hard guys were in residence" (pp.7-8). The reminiscences of one of the prison's first guards, as told to his son.