I, WILLIE SUTTON The Personal Story of the Cleverest Bank-Robber of Modern Times

Hardback, 1st UK edn. A daring and skillful bank robber and one of the most defatiguable jail-breakers. He was called "Willie the Actor" because he had used his theatrical talents for chicanery and impersonation. He departed 3 of America's most escape-proof penitentiaries - each break the rival of the wildest fiction. As an aside, Sutton only authorised this book's writing on condition that royalties be turned over to organisations combatting juvenile delinquency, in the hope that the story of his misspent life would have practical as well as moral value. 273pp. 8vo. h/back. Red cloth with sunned sp., browned edges, tiny label to fpd o/w Nr. Vg.