Brendan Behan

Borstal Boy

Hutchinson of London, 1958. 8vo, grape buckram cloth, silver titles, 343pp. First British Edition, the true first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (16s net) with light chipping to spine down, tape residue mark to front flap, toning to panels. Ownership signature, bookseller’s ticket to front endpaper, light bump to board corners, trace of fading to edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Autobiography of the Irish poet, novelist, playwright and literary personality, a memoir of his three years imprisoned in an English borstal jail for radical Irish Republican Army activities. Adapted both for stage and screen. A very good copy in mylar.

Price: $75.00