NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First edition. 201pp. Blue vinyl, blind-embossed to front board; silver spine titles; red topstain; dust jacket. Minor foxing and former owner's stamp to ffep. Else fine in an unclipped jacket, cut a tad short.
A sharp first printing of the sole book by American writer George Cain (1943-2010), a semi-autobiographical novel about a Black man struggling to overcome heroin addiction in the wake of his prison release; lauded in a 2018 New Yorker article by Leslie Jamison as a "powerful literary account of addiction." Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
