With a Torrid Inscription

The Gospel Singer

Crews, Harry

Publication: New York: Dell, 1969. First Thus.

Notes: The author's first book, sold in hardcover as a literary debut novel. In this drugstore paperback version, with a shirtless man and two scantily clad women on the cover, it's described as "a torrid novel" of "sex and salvation."

204 pages.

Edition + Condition: First massmarket printing (states "First Dell printing—March 1969" on the copyright page. A good-only used copy; you don't want it for the condition, you want it for Crews' torrid inscription to his friend and collector Tom Garner, "For Tom—Read and suffer the little girls to come unto you—or just to come. Harry Crews."

Item No: #362883

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