The Knockout Artist by Harry Crews (73 results)

Condition: New.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. George Carsillo (cover) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 269 pages of (boxing) fiction. The setting is New Orleans , Louisiana. READ more about : Eugene Talmadge Biggs. Also: Louisiana Swamp Exhibit. sweetheart, uncle carter, Edsel, blood kin, Charity, Canal Street, and ABD. UNillustrated. Cond : Yellow paper wrapper. Cover art image shows a brown boxer (from rural Georgia) with vivid red gloves.Tight in binding. Age toning. Soft fore corners. Creases. No names nor marks. Very good reading copy. QUote (p. 75) : " But he had taken no more than five steps into the room before it seemed everybody was staring directly at him. Even the music seemed to drop a notch in volume, and people who had been moving about, talking or ._._._. . ".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Book and dust jacket: NEAR FINE condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. [Stated First Edition] Hardcover and dust jacket. Bottom corners chewed away. Toning to pages. 269 pages; 25 cm. A young boxer of great talent discovers he has a freakishly vulnerable glass jaw and begins to exploit his defect by knocking himself unconscious.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Eugene Biggs is the knockout artist of the title who chooses to become part of the New Orleans underworld. A darkly humorous and humane novel. Light bump to bottom spine, light yellowing to page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. FE/FP with full number line. As new hardcover in similar dust jacket, now wrapped in Brodart. More violent and depraved characters from the iconoclastic Grit Lit author hailing from Bacon County, Georgia. In this novel Crews casts his satirical eye on a boxer hailinf from rural Georgia, Eugene Talmadge BIggs, a talented fighter with a glass jaw, who uses his vulnerability to knock himself out. 240 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine (pc). First Edition. Very fine in price-clipped else VF dustjacket.

NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT WITH ONLY A TRACE OF CORNER RUB. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. has the '1' in a number series. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Includes bookplate signed by Harry Crews. 269p. First edition copy bound in maroon cloth boards, titled in gold over spine. Binding secure and square. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket is glossy, clean and bright. Upper corner bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "First Edition" stated with complete number line - 1st printing, Signed by the Author on the full title page, light toning/dusting to edges of text block with some specks of foxing to fore-edge - a 1/8" diameter brownish spot to upper left of full title page and page opposite, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Harper & Row (New York), 1998. First edition. First printing, with complete number line including the 1. Very fine/Very fine. A tight clean copy, as new and unread. Price intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Purchased new and never even opened.

Jacket Design George Corsillo (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition, signed to title page. About Near Fine in a like jacket. Hardcover [8vo], maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine in a pictorial dust jacket, 269 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy of the Knockout Artist. Faint thumbprint stain to front wrap, all else fine. 368 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Harpers and Row, 1988. Hardcover with lengthy inscription from Harry Crews to a local Washington state bookseller named Joe Collins. Inscription waxes about perseverance through hardship. Pictorial DJ over boards in maroon cloth. Gilt letters stamped on spine. DJ shows scuffing to rear cover, all else fine. Book fine, 269 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. UNCORRECTED PROOF. 2nd issue. Fine in plain brown printed wrappers.

Softbound. 2nd issue. NFbrown wraps Advance reading copy from uncorrected manuscript.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Advance Reading Copy. Printed buff wrappers. Tiny stain on front wrap, else about fine.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1988). First Edition. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST OF THE PROOF IN YELLOW WRAPS. SIGNATURE LAID IN. Signed by Author(s).

[0-06-015893-X] 1988, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 269pp. 8vo. Novel. A story about love, often misguided, sometimes destructive, yet always the true path that leads to principles that are clear and true. Seasoned with the author's rowdy sense of humour. Wrappers protected in detached mylar sleeve. First US edition. Signed. Fine / fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ SIGNED BY CREWS. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. BOUND MANUSCRIPT shot from typescript. Near fine in plain yellow printed wrappers. (Light crease on rear cover. ) Very uncommon. Not to be confused with the later proof in beige printed wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Book has toning to the page edges. Jacket has a light crease to the lower spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET NEAR FINE. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. FIRST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. A boxing novel, collected here in three versions by the collector Tom Garner and housed in one of his distinctive clamshell boxes: the first edition, a proof in dark tan wrappers prepared from typescript; and a beige-tan proof using typeset pages. First: 269 pages; dark tan proof, 368 pages; beige proof, 247 pages. The Ahearns, in their Author Price Guide identify another proof, bound in yellow wrappers, and paginated to 382 (the dark tan proof was not listed in the APG). The changing page numbering suggests that the book may have been revised during the proof stage, but I did not immediately find any differences in the text. First edition (first printing). The first edition is near fine in a very near fine dust jacket. It is inscribed, "Tom, All of us need more Bolivia marching powder?Blood pump. Harry Crews." The dark tan proof is near fine and inscribed, "For Tom, Harry Crews." The beige proof is near fine (a couple of minor pen marks in the text) and is inscribed, "Tom?take the lightning rod out of your hand or get ready for the heat. Harry Crews." The dark tan proof seems quite scarce. A nice group of books.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. UNCORRECTED 'First Issue' PROOF. Fine in plain yellow printed wrappers. (The 'second issue' proof was printed in brown colored wrappers) Author Kurt Vonnegut's copy, with a letter from the publisher addressed to him laid-in.

First edition. INSCRIBED BY CREWS on title page, "To Walter Sullivan/ Best to you and yours/ Harry Crews." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, and authority on Southern literature. Crews' is a distinctive voice among Southern writers, and this story of a boxer with a glass jaw is "virtuoso Crews--as mordantly funny as it is unflinching in the face of every foible of bedraggled humanity" (from the dust jacket flap). Near fine with faint stain to page fore edges; in bright, fine dust jacket. Increasingly scarce book, especially so signed or inscribed.