Donald Powell Wilson — My Six Convicts

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951. First edition. Cloth. First UK edition of this fascinating autobiographical work by Donald Powell Wilson in its scarce dust wrapper. Autobiographical work based on the author's experiences as a young professor of psychology in one of the biggest prisons in America, Fort Leavenworth. He was sent by the US Pubic Health Service to investigate the relations between drug addiction and criminality. The first UK edition. This work inspired an American film noir crime drama directed by Hugo Fregonoese. Complete with scarce dust wrapper, unclipped. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine with damp marks to boards. Dust wrapper with shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine with minor loss , damp offsetting internally to wraps, not affecting externals. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Faint minor spotting to fore edge, not affecting pages that remain bright and clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good/Good.