Prison Life is Different by James A. Johnston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" 337 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. DUST JACKET: About 1/2" x 1" chip of the top front of the dj spine. There are numerous other tears on the edge of the DJ. Places with heavy wear. Tiny chips on the other corners of the dust jacket spine. The spine of the dust jacket has sun fading. Is price-clipped.  Now protected by a removable mylar dj cover. BOOK: Moderate cover edge wear. Previous owner bookplate inside the front cover. Extensive previous owner notes and old bookseller pricing on the first blank page. On the corresponding pages mentioned in the notes on the first blank page is some bracketing in light pencil. I see no other previous owner markings.  No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KL17a

"James Aloysius Johnston (September 15, 1874 – September 7, 1954) was an American politician and prison warden who served as the first and longest-serving warden of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, serving from 1934 to 1948. He had earlier served as warden of California state prisons at Folsom (1912-1913) and San Quentin (1914-1924)"  - Wikipedia