Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966

Edition: 1st US, 1st impression

Binding: Hardback

Noted as "First Printing 1966" on the publisher's page, this became the 1971 film which gave Al Pacino his first starring role. The novel melds reportage and fiction, and tells the story of the New York heroin crisis of 1964 through two characters on the margins - Bob, a petty thief, and Helen a prostitute, both junkies. Superbly evocative photo to rear jacket. There is some bumping to a defined part of front and rear boards. Very clean inside. The jacket has marginal losses to spine top and a little staining to base from probable water transfer from book

Book Condition: Very good

Jacket Condition: Very good

Price: £95.00

Item # 999