Tattoo the Wicked Cross
by Floyd Salas
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square spine has a subtle crease and some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Some toning to both the covers and the pages and a small dampstain affecting a few pages of the front matter at the fore-edge. There is a heavy crease to the upper fore-edge corner of the back cover, but very little shelf-wear otherwise. Nice Evergreen Black Cat mass-market paperback with a cover photo of a young Salas by French photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont. According to a contemporaneous New American Review, this debut novel (the first of two published by Grove Press during the Barney Rosset years) depicts 'the structured underworld of a California prison farm dominated by sadistic perverts operating under the protection of the no-squeal code of their victims.' Writer-fighter Salas would go on to publish his third novel with Ishmael Reed and Al Young's Y'Bird Press, teach at Folsom and San Quentin prisons, coach boxing at UC Berkeley, and famously confront Saul Bellow, asking, 'Are you saying the university should offer writers a haven from the vulgarities of the contemporary world?' 351 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 930813
- Title
- Tattoo the Wicked Cross
- Author
- Floyd Salas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Evergreen Black Cat Ed., 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Cottage Grove, Oregon
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