first edition
1968 · New York
by SIMMONS, Herbert
New York: Macfadden Books, 1968. First Paperback Edition. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; maroon edge-staining; 224pp. Some pinpoint rubbing to extremities, else very Near Fine and unread, with the edge-staining bright and unfaded. Simmons's first novel (published in 1957), chronicling the rise and fall of a 19 year-old Black dope hustler whose life begins to deteriorate when he is caught by police with a white woman and drugs in his car. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. (Inventory #: 32511)