A Childhood by Harry Crews, First Edition (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket has minor shelf rubbing and chipping along with foxing and smudging. Book boards have slight bend along with shelf rubbing and interior staining. Binding is tight. Page edges have minor foxing. End pages have light staining and smudging but interior text is clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.92.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Printing of stated 1st Quills Edition (1983). Covers clean and bright with no rips, minor shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked with no rips or creases. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST OF THE PROOF IN red WRAPS. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in unclipped ('$8.95'), fine dustjacket (mylar-protected). Lovely copy of this Crews high spot, a work of memoir/autobiography that is often considered his best book.

Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition. Fine.

Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The 1978 correct 1st edition (with the proper number line following suit). Solid and VG (very light offsetting at the endsheets, a touch of soiling to the front panel) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with notable creasing along the flap-folds, a touch of wear at the spine ends and slight cocking to the binding. Wonderful Harry Crews memoir.

Trade paperback. Condition: Near fine. Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy, preceding the first edition and reproducing various copyediting and in-house production notes removed from the final version. 171 pages. Spine a bit sunned, minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo HB. pp; 171. Very Good in red cloth, lettered gilt to spine (Some light marking toward the top edge of the boards). In a Very Good jacket with light shelf-wear, but some marking to the reverse.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition, first printing of A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 171pp. Yellow hardcover, title in green on green cloth spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with full number line. Solid text block, faint foxing along edges, near fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $8.95 retail price on front flap, short closed tear to top edge, shelf wear, near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [12], 1-171, [7] pp. Quarter green cloth over yellow paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 010b. A sharp copy of Crews' memoir growing up in poverty in Georgia. A touch of foxing to the bottom of the cloth; jacket has toning to its flaps.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed red wrappers. Slightest fading at the spine, still fine. Author's excellent memoir.

Printer Wrapper. Condition: Fine. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Close to fine in plain red printed wrappers. (Hint of foxing at top edge).

8vo, quarter green cloth to boards. First edition signed by the author on the title page. Near very fine with some light fading to cloth at edges and rubbing to price clipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Michael McCurdy (illustrator). 1st Edition. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA. 1995. 182 pages. First edition, thus. First printing of the illustrated edition. This title was originally published without Michael McCurdy's illustrations in 1978. Signed by Harry Crews on the half-title page: Best, Harry Crews. Book is fine; bright, tight and clean. Original DJ is bright and attractive. Small closed chip at crown, barely of note. A fine copy in a near fine DJ; signed by Harry Crews. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half title page. Toning to the jacket interior and minimal wear to the spine edges and fold tips and evidence of a sticker removal to the upper front flap. A closed tear to the upper front panel and creasing along the top of the spine. The book has some softening to the spine ends, else clean and free of any markings. A harrowing non fiction account of the author growing up in Macon County, Georgia. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 171 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two small creases to front flap fold.

First edition. 171 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A Crews masterpiece, on growing up poor in Macon County, Georgia.