Tully's breakthrough novel about life on the road Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass--especially in his second book, Beggars of Life, an ...
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Tully's breakthrough novel about life on the road Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a "road kid," he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass--especially in his second book, Beggars of Life, an autobiographical novel published in 1924. Tully saw it all, from a church baptism in the Mississippi River to election day in Chicago. And in Beggars of Life, he captures an America largely hidden from view. This novelistic memoir impressed readers and reviewers with its remarkable vitality and honesty. Tully's devotion to Mark Twain and Jack London taught him the importance of giving the reader a sense of place, and this he does brilliantly, again and again, throughout Beggars of Life. From the opening conversation on a railroad trestle, Beggars of Life rattles along like the Fast Flyer Virginia that Tully boards midway through the book. This is the book that defined Tully's hard-boiled style and set the pattern for the twelve books that followed over the next two decades. Startling in its originality and intensity, Beggars of Life is a breakneck journey made while clinging to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.
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Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $3.51, new condition, Sold by The Maryland Book Bank rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from baltimore, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel Books.
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Add this copy of Beggars of Life: a Hobo Autobiography to cart. $13.50, very good condition, Sold by Archer's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kent, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kent State University Press.
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Very Good Condition. Bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio; Literature & Literary. ISBN/EAN: 9781606350003. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22280.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life: a Hobo Autobiography to cart. $20.00, new condition, Sold by Archer's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kent, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kent State Univ. Press.
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New Book. Jim Tully's autobiography covering his years as a road kid, his breakthrough book. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Ohio literature; ISBN/EAN: 9781606350003. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18974.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $23.39, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by The Kent State University Pres.
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Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by Archer's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kent, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1926 by A&C Boni.
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Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. "During idle hours, I loitered near the railroad yard of an Ohio town from which I launched upon my tramping career." Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio literature; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15696.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $71.00, good condition, Sold by Bungalow Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pueblo, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Garden City Publishing.
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Good in Good dust jacket. Hinges weak. Bookplate of Rose Benson on the front pastedown endpaper. The dust jacket is present, with clear tape remnants to the verso. A chip to the rear panel and the top of the spine, with a closed tear to the rear panel. An influential novelistic memoir of hobo life, and the book that defined Tully's hard-boiled style.; 336 pages.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by Albert and Charles Boni, Publishers.
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Very Good+ First edition. 336 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+. No jacket. Gilt lettering mostly strong. Fraying to cloth at tips. A few dog-eared pages and a production crease or two. A great hobo narrative that has aged quite well.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $275.00, good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by Albert & Charles Boni.
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Good+ Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Albert & Charles Boni, New York. 1925. 336 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Jim Tully on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn, with sunning present to the spine). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order. Written with unflinching honesty and insight, Beggars of Life follows Tully from his first ride at age thirteen, choosing life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and-living one meal to the next. Tully's direct, confrontational approach helped shape the hard-boiled school of writing, and later immeasurably influenced the noir genre. Beggars of Life was the first in Tully's five-volume memoir, dubbed the "Underworld Edition, " recalling his transformation from road-kid to novelist, journalist, Hollywood columnist, chain maker, boxer, circus handyman, and tree surgeon. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 336 pages.
Add this copy of Beggars of Life to cart. $350.00, very good condition, Sold by Books on the Boulevard rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sherman Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by ALBERT & CHARLES BONI..
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Very Good with no dust jacket. Front free-endpaper inscribed (not personalized, ) "In friendship always, Jim Tully, Hollywood 1924." Owner bookplate to front free-endpaper. Tiny dealer label inner pastedown. Boards tight and straight, small bump to upper edge front cover.; 366 pages; Signed by Author.
