Allen, James. Narrative of the life of James Allen.

Boston: Harrington & Co., 1837. The book is the autobiography of a man who was executed for robbery. Per his instructions, only two copies are printed, each bound in leather made from two strips of skin from the author’s back. One copy is directed to be given to John Fenno Jr., a passenger in the last stagecoach that the author had tried to rob and who had helped bring him to justice. The book is now owned by the Boston Athenaeum. Its full title is: Narrative of the life of James Allen: alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman : being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts state prison.