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 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 fine, bright copy in dust jacket with a tiny chip at the bottom of rear cover. 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.

Inventory Number: 52389