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BLACK, Jack. You Can’t Win. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered gilt. 8vo. xiv, 394pp. Horne’s Bookshop, Pittsburgh label on rear pastedown. Spotting and browning to endpapers. FIRST EDITION of this classic of crime and tramp literature, the autobiography of a professional burglar and librarian of the San Francisco Call. William S. Burroughs cited the book as influential, and wrote a foreword for the 1988 edition. [With]: three volumes on hobos and tramps, including: Tramp Life; or Roving Adventures in Europe and America. St. Louis, 1886. Third edition. – ANDERSON, Nels. The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man. Chicago, 1923. – “A No 1.” The Ways of the Hobo. Erie, 1915. Losses in upper right corner at rear, some loss of text. 8vos, cloth and wrappers.