Description
First edition of Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by Emma Parker and Nell Barrow Cowan.
Small octavo, iv, 255pp. Red cloth, title in black on front cover and spine. Stated “First Printing, September, 1934” on copyright page. Solid text block, faint rubbing to edges, light stains to top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $1.50 retail price on the front flap, short closed tear along front flap fold, sunning to spine, light rubbing to corners. A bright example of the scarce dust jacket.
Fugitives tells the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from firsthand accounts by Parker’s mother, Emma, and Barrow’s sister, Nell. Bonnie and Clyde were an infamous duo, known for their robberies and murders committed during the Great Depression, leading to their eventual demise in May 1934.
