Robbing Banks Was My Business. The Story Of J. Harvey Bailey, America's Most Successful Bank Robber.

J. EVETTS HALEY

Publication: Palo Duro Press, 1973, Canyon

First edition. Signed on the title page by J. Evetts Haley. Cloth, xvi, 210 pp., black & white frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, index. Illustrated by Theda Rhea. Well-written story chronicling the life of John Harvey Bailey, America's most successful bank robber. Bailey was called "The Dean of American Bank Robbers," was a long-time criminal robbing over a million dollars in the 1920s and 30s. He knew such noted crime figures as Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed at spine ends, corners, and extremities.