The Tattooed Rood

382 Pages. October 1969 Printing. Two inked-word owner's name on front endpaper. Covers show wear to covers and a one inch by eighth inch piece missing from top of back cover. Spine is lightly cocked. Pages are tight but lightly age tanned . As a boy he had been known as El rubio, a ragamuffin pimp who made his few pesos leading sailors to his home, a waterfront borgello. As a young man he was called Mario, handsmme and experienced beyond his years in the debauchery and treachery of slave-trading Havana. And then, suddenly, he was the Count of San Mateo, heir to a Spanish fortune, and bound for Spain to play the role of human stallion to a desperate, degernerate queen. A novel of a man branded with the terrible torture-mark of the Spanish Inquisition.