LAST ITEM HELD MATCHING THIS TITLE STATED:

London: Souvenir Press, 1985. VIII, 234pp., last 9 blank, publisher's note. Black and white illustration of "Lena age 40" -- mother of David S. Black coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. 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 as well. 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. 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. " 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.".. First English Translation. Black Cloth. Reasonable/Reasonable. Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Drug Addiction.