The Young Can Die Protesting [Inscribed]

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],159,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Sally / with fond affection / Tobias Wells." Some offsetting to gutters at endpapers (from binder's glue), a barely discernable trace of spotting to front cover; Near Fine. In a supplied dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.50), with light wear to extremities, a thin adhesive strip on verso of spine panel, and three spots of adhesive on verso of each flap; presentable looking, but only Very Good. A late Crime Club title, featuring Detective Knute Severson of the Boston Police Department, working undercover as a hippie in order to infiltrate the ranks of the anti-war movement. He infiltrates the movement successfully, when "psychedelic bedlam" breaks loose after a hippie leader is found swinging from a noose in a church choir loft. Elusive in commerce. HUBIN, p.430.