Borstal Boy jam Large hardback in the dust-jacket

Large hardback in the dust-jacket and slipcase

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

Tips of corners rubbed and bumped

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

Publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine

Borstal Boy jam Large hardback in the dust-jacketLondon: 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.