Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. Some very light edge and corner wear with light interior toning. Book is square and securely bound. Jacket has edge and corner wear with some small tears and light chipping, mostly along top edges. A bit of damage at top of spine with a chip on the rear. Toning on edges. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 142 pages; Account of takeover of section of the Texas State Prison in Huntsville by three armed prison and the eleven and a half days in which several librarians, teachers and prison employees were held hostage under continuing threats of death. The author was one of the hostages. The siege ended in a well-publicized shootout.