Borstal Boy jam who wrote around a third

who wrote around a third of the volumes

Large hardback in the dust-jacket and slipcase

Large hardback with the excellent pictorial dust-wrapper

Publisher's black cloth

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

Borstal Boy jam who wrote around a thirdLondon: 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.