Fugitives, The Story Of Clyde Barrow And Bonnie Parker.

FORTUNE, JAN I. [EDITOR].

Publication: The Ranger Press, Inc, 1934, Dallas

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth, black endpapers, iv, 255 pp., frontis. (photograph of Bonnie and Clyde, 2 months before their deaths), foreword. The story of Bonnie and Clyde as told by Mrs. Emma Parker, Bonnie's mother, and Nell Barrow Cowan, Clyde's sister. An interesting and rare account of the lives of these notorious outlaws. This copy is signed on the title page by members of the 1967 cast of the movie BONNIE AND CLYDE, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, and Jack N. Reddish, Assistant Director. Additionally laid-in are newspaper clippings that relate to the original Bonnie and Clyde. One tells of the death Rev. Clifford Andrews, who in 1934, delivered the funeral sermons for Bonnie and Clyde, another the capture of Raymond Hamilton, a contemporary of Bonnie and Clyde and a sometime member of their gang, Floyd Hamilton, older brother of Raymond Hamilton who spent 23 years in prison, mostly for his part in breaking his brother from the Eastham Prison, located near Huntsville, Texas. Clyde Barrow was to drive the getaway car for the escape. One clipping is of Bonnie Parker filing a $1,025,000 law suit alleging the movie BONNIE AND CLYDE "blackened" the memory of her sister. This book was published to much acclaim but the completed book outraged both families. Clyde's sister Marie called FUGITIVES, "romanticized, sentimentalized claptrap," and Nell Barrow protested that she "never told the writer any of that stuff." But the families never sued the author...." A little wrinkling to the spine panel and cloth a bit rubbed, else very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip at the head of spine that affects part of the lettering. A unique copy of a book about a young couple whose big dreams and being poor led them into a life of virtually no return.