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You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

You Can't Win, Jack Black. Third Printing.

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You Can't Win, Jack Black

First edition, third printing of this important autobiography by professional burglar and hobo, Jack Black. The book, which describes his days on the road and life as an outlaw, was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight, but it is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. You Can't Win would prove influential to the Beats and in particular William S. Burroughs, who would later write the forward to the 1988 reprint.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering; pp. xi, [3], 394. A good copy. Binding sturdy with a slight forward lean. Light shelfwear to boards with scattered light stains. Offsetting to endpapers with erased owner's details to flyleaf, a handful of chips and thumb smudges to pages, else clean. Protected in a removable archival sleeve.

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