Souvenir Press, 1985, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

publisher's note. Black and white illustration of "Lena age 40" -- mother of David S. Black coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, against a grey and white background with red, white and black writing on the front panel and red and black on the spine. " In its honesty, its quiet, unemotional reporting of a progressive, long- drawn-out agony, The Mother of David S. must be one of the most powerful statements published of the horror and destructiveness of drug dependence." - from the front panel blurb. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the back book corners. Staining to the lower book edge of the front panel and the page edges are brown. The internal pages are starting to brown. The dustwrapper is a little rubbed and faded and the back panel is quite dull. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and creasing to the top and bottom edges. First English Translation. Size: Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. VIII, 234 pages, last 9 blank,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Drugs; ISBN: 0285626957. ISBN/EAN: 9780285626959. Inventory No: 0103168.