[PRISONS] [LGBTQIA+] SALAS, Floyd

Tattoo the Wicked Cross

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); brick red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-351,[1]pp. Faint foxing to text edges, spine ends a bit pushed; Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $5.95) with some trivial wear, and vertical crease to rear flap; Near Fine.

"This extraordinary first novel, without sermonizing, exposes the indescribably cruel system of adolescent prisons. It is a remarkable addition to the literature of so-called criminality in our time, the literature in which the suffering condem the world that has condemned them. The slum and prison code of honor is more than a philosophy, it is a religion; and this is the tale of how a toughly religious street hoodlum makes of himself a saint and a martyr" (from rear flap). YOUNG 2280. [82045].

Price: $35.00

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