Behind These Walls

NY: Frederick Fell, 1957. First edition (presumed). 224pp. Octavo; blue/gray textured paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Bump to bottom corner of boards & textblock; light sunning to board perimeters, toning to textblock edges. Price-clipped jacket with chip at heel of spine, light edge-wear. Very good in very good jacket.

A pseudonymous prison novel with strong gay overtones, and several explicitly gay characters. The sole novel by Frank Earl Fleck (1904-1970), who was born in Pittsburgh and spent most of his adult life in and out of prisons for counterfeiting, armed robbery, and other crimes. Gunn, Gay American Novels, 1870-1970, pp.86-87. Young 3761.