A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography

First edition, first printing. 126pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Slight sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends; shelf number label on spine. Lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page. Text block edges tanning, pages just starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Although Blackburn had often explored aspects of his traumatic childhood in his earlier writings, in A Clip of Steel he brings it to the fore and relating, sometimes in disturbing detail, the events and effects of the demons which haunted him.