Borstal Boy

London: 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.