Coronet, London, 1972, appears 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-340-16260-0.  Soft cover, 328 pages including Index.  Light edge and cover wear, faint front corner bends, small ding to lower spine; flaw to film covering rear upper corner; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘A Dublin slum boy, risen to fame and fortune and crucified with drink – this was what the world knew of Brendan.  Was there anything, anybody, else?  There was, and the man behind the bottle is the subject of this detailed study by Ulick O’Connor – the first complete biography of Brendan Behan, who as a young revolutionary got his first proper look at the world in 1946 at the age of twenty-three and began to write.’ (from rear wrap)