Borstal Boy jam Wide gilt turn-ins of five

Wide gilt turn-ins of five gilt filets with an inner jagged filet

bottom edge slightly split

with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket illustrated by British artist John Minton

Large hardback in the dust-jacket and slipcase

Tiny nick to back cover

Borstal Boy jam Wide gilt turn-ins of fiveLondon: Hutchinson, 1958. First Edition. Publisher's purple cloth, spine lettered in silver. 343 pages. Portrait frontispiece. With the unclipped dust jacket depicting the head of Behan by B. S. Biro. Jacket lightly rubbed at ends of spine. General light foxing to endpapers and a couple of spots at fore edge. A near fine copy of Behan's autobiographical account of his three years at Hollesley Bay Young Offenders Institute in Woodbridge, Suffolk.