Down These Mean Streets

8vo. x, 333 (3) pp, author's acknowledgments, prologue, Harlem: Suburbia; Harlem; Suburbia; Down South; Harlem; Prison; New York Town. First Printing, 1967. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``This is a document of one man's journey from childhood to maturity and records the sometimes poetic, sometimes brutal story of a life begun in Spanish Harlem. Yet it is not merely a memoir, as his story is shot through with figures that create a vigorous and brooding world family, friends, the people of the streets, and those of prison. The Language is the most corrupt of the city and also that of the most innocent reaches of the human heart. His work in Spanish Harlem was the subject of the award-winning film Petey and Johnny, in which he both appeared and provided the narration." from the jacket flap.