Bedlam

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 319pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 orange cloth with bluish-gray paper over boards. Covers cocked; bottom edge of front board moderately sunned. In the illustrated dust jacket, with creasing to the edges, and periodic shallow closed edge tears (backed with tape). From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. A novel which portrays the world of a man, who in order to escape prison, ventured to live as an inmate in a psychiatric hospital.