Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1974. Octavo, red cloth. pp (iv), 287, [9). Book a little leaned, else a fine fresh copy, no owner names. The reddish-orange dust jacket has small peel of surface lamination at head of spine, some sunning to spine and inner margin of front panel, else fine. "Here, in a narrative pulsating with the cautious, clipped language of the street, is an extraordinary novel, set in the strange and fierce world of 'jones' - slang in the drug subculture for both heroin and and agonizing craving it produces." - jacket. African-American journalist's first novel. Set in Detroit. 0809283069