NMLP P-045289 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Borstal Boy

Brendan Behan · Hutchinson & Co., London · 1958

Cloth colour is catalogued variously as mauve/purple, with a few describing maroon, so identify primarily by the single 1958 Hutchinson imprint with no later-impression line, the 343-page collation, the frontispiece portrait, and the Biro pictorial jacket rather than by colour alone

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045289 for "Borstal Boy" by Brendan Behan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045289, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).