[TRUE CRIME]. BRUCE, J. Campbell. A Farewell to the Rock. Escape from Alcatraz. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1963]. 8vo. 248 pp. Publisher?s blue backstrip. Over gray cloth boards, spine lettered in silver, publisher?s unclipped (?$5.50?) dust jacket (binding worn, soiled, scuffed, endleaves soiled, text toned; jacket worn, toned, soiled, with several chips and tears). Fair. PRESUMED EARLY PRINTING, PRESENTATION COPY, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ON THE HALF-TITLE: ?For Dorothy Lankard In happy recollection of those pre-bowling chats at Bruce and Mildred?s, when my play was in rehearsal down there. With warmest wishes. ? John J. Campbell Bruce Berkeley July 1963?. This book was an important history of Alcatraz prison, as well as a record of the escape of Frank Morris and others. It was the basis of the 1979 Clint Eastwood film. Measurements: 8 x 6 x 1?.