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  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    eBook (1400 Road Marketing, March 19, 2014)
    • Author Biography• Book ReviewFor several weeks I was not particularly interested in him.But as I continued to see more of him, and learned much about his life, my interest grew; for I soon perceived that he not only had led a typical thief's life, but was also a man of more than common natural intelligence, with a gift of vigorous expression.That this ex-convict, when a boy on the East Side of New York City, should have taken to the "graft" seemed to me, as he talked about it, the most natural thing in the world.
  • Autobiography of a Thief. By: Hutchins Hapgood

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 13, 2016)
    Hutchins Hapgood (May 21, 1869, Chicago – November 19, 1944, Provincetown, MA) was an American journalist, author and anarchist Hapgood grew up in Alton, IL, where his father was a wealthy manufacturer of farming equipment. After a year at the University of Michigan, he transferred to Harvard University, where he took a B.A. in 1892 and earned his Masters in 1897. Two of the intervening years were spent studying sociology and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, Germany. At first, he became a teacher of English composition at Harvard and the University of Chicago, but was eventually inspired by his older brother, Norman to pursue a career in journalism. He obtained his first employment with the New York Commercial Advertiser (later known as the New York Globe). His mentor there was Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking reporter. On June 22, 1899, he married Neith Boyce, Steffens' assistant and a journalist in her own right. In 1904, when the Advertiser was revamped as the Globe, he went back to Chicago for a time and became the drama critic for the Chicago Evening Post. Returning to New York, he spent much of his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, the Press, and the Globe. Following the deaths of his father in 1917 and his eldest son Boyce (in the 1918 flu epidemic), Hapgood's career began to decline. A few years later, general disillusionment over the decadence of the post-war world led him to retire. Hapgood died on November 19, 1944, in Provincetown, and was buried in the family plot in East Cemetery, Petersham, Massachusetts.
  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 19, 2014)
    The Autobiography of a Thief By Hutchins Hapgood
  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, Jan. 21, 2018)
    Excerpt from The Autobiography of a ThiefIt was only after he had become a profes sional thief and had done time in the prisons that he began to see that crime does not pay. He saw that all his friends came to ruin, that his own health was shattered, and that he stood on the verge Of the mad-house. His self-education in prison helped him, too, to the perception that he had made a terrible mistake. He came to have intellectual ambi tions and no longer took an interest in his Old companions. After several weeks Of constant association with him I became morally certain that his reform was as genuine as possible under the circumstances; and that, with fair success in the way Of getting something to do, he would remain honest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, June 14, 2012)
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  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Hardcover (BiblioLife, Jan. 28, 2009)
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  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Paperback (BiblioBazaar, Jan. 27, 2009)
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  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Hardcover (Fox, Duffield & Co., March 15, 1903)
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  • The Autobiography of a Thief 1903

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Leather Bound (Generic, March 15, 2019)
    Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1903]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - English, Pages 363. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}
  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins HAPGOOD

    MP3 CD (IDB Productions, March 15, 2019)
    The Autobiography of a Thief CHAPTER I. Boyhood and Early Crime. I have been a professional thief for more than twenty years. Half of that time I have spent in state's prison, and the other half in "grafting" in one form or another. I was a good pickpocket and a fairly successful burglar; and I have known many of the best crooks in the country. I have left the business for good, and my reasons will appear in the course of this narrative. I shall tell my story with entire frankness. I shall not try to defend myself. I shall try merely to tell the truth. Perhaps in so doing I shall explain myself. I was born on the east side of New York City in 1868, of poor but honest parents. My father was an Englishman who had married an Irish girl and emigrated to America, where he had a large family, no one of whom, with the exception of myself, went wrong. For many years he was an employee of Brown Brothers and Company and was a sober, industrious man, and a good husband and kind father. To me, who was his favorite, he was perhaps too kind. I was certainly a spoiled child. I remember that when I was five years old he bought me a twenty-five dollar suit of clothes. I was a vigorous, handsome boy, with red, rosy cheeks and was not only the pet of my family, but the life of the neighborhood as well. At that time, which is as far back as I can remember, we were living on Munro Street, in the Seventh Ward. This was then a good residential neighborhood, and we were comfortable in our small, wooden house. The people about us were Irish and German, the large Jewish emigration not having begun yet. Consequently, lower New York did not have such a strong business look as it has now, but was cleanly and respectable. The gin-mills were fewer in number, and were comparat
  • The Autobiography of a Thief

    Hutchins Hapgood

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, Feb. 23, 2019)
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    Hutchins Hapgood

    Hardcover (Fox, Duffield & Company, March 15, 1903)
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