By Frank Elli

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1966).

First edition.

One upper page corner tip creased from folding, else near fine; in a near fine dust jacket with two tiny lower edge tears.

Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Front flap price of $4.95.

The ex-convict's first novel is a "taut, tense, minute-by-minute account of a two-day riot in a maximum-security penitentiary in the Midwest."--publisher's blurb.

The novel was the basis for the 1969 film starring Gene Hackman and Jim Brown.

The novel won the Thomas R. Coward Prize.

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