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Item #77276 The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Gilbert Geis. Negley K. Teeters.
The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Gilbert Geis.
The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Gilbert Geis.

The Cradle of the Penitentiary, Inscribed to Gilbert Geis.

Teeters, Negley K. The Cradle of the Penitentiary: The Walnut Street Jail at Philadelphia, 1773-1835. [Philadelphia?]: Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Society, [1955]. xii, 152 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, very good in chipped, toned and lightly foxed dust jacket, internally clean. Author inscription "Inscribed for Prof. Gilbert Geis by the author Negley K Teeters at Philadelphia April 28, 1955" to front free endpaper. $45. * Geis was an American criminologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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