The Gypsy's Curse
First Edition. One of Crews' hard-to-summarize novels, stuffed with weirdness and humanity. 208 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Two dozen books: inscribed Harry Crews and Ralph Steadman limited editions.
Download PDF of List 24: Crews v. SteadmanFirst Edition. One of Crews' hard-to-summarize novels, stuffed with weirdness and humanity. 208 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. A boxing novel. 269 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy has a great, if slightly hard to parse, inscription to a friend. The reference to a judge likely refers to the recipient's profession (criminal defense attorney). "Tom.....
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368 pages. Reproduced from a clean typescript. A fine copy in printed brown wrappers. Uncommon in this format. Inscribed by Crews, "To Phil May, all best, Harry Crews. Gainesville, Flor." The recipient is probably the TV producer and film historian of that name.
Price: $150
First Edition. Four non-fiction pieces: "Madonna at Ringside", an account of an evening Crews spent with Madonna and Sean Penn at the Trump Hotel to watch the Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks fight; "Fathers, Sons, Blood", a meditation on fatherhood and Crews's son's death by drowning; "Knowledge and the Language of the.....
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First Edition. A dark comedy about a door-to-door salesman's quest to win the annual sales contest and achieve the American Dream. 268 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in a like dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title.....
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First Edition. A dark comedy about a door-to-door salesman's quest to win the annual sales contest and achieve the American Dream. 268 pages. First paperback printing (numberline ending in 1). Remainder mark on top edge, else a very good copy. With a wonderful inscription, "Tom: This book was a mistake it.....
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First Edition. A novel by the author of The Gospel Singer. 284 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A couple of pages with a narrow crease at the outer edge. Signed by Crews on the title page.
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First Edition. A novel of love and life in Jacksonville, Florida. 284 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a terrific inscription by Crews at the beginning of Book One: "For Tom: I wrote this book flying blind.....
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284 pages. An advance copy of a novel by the author of The Gospel Singer. A fine copy in printed blue wrappers (paperback). Nicely inscribed to a friend, "To Tom Garner's 90 year old liver. Harry Crews."
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First Edition. Two copies of this novel of love and life in Jacksonville, Florida. The long inscriptions in these two books explain Crews' dedication of the book to the actor Sean Penn and his admiration of James Dickey, a quote from whom is the epigraph for the book. The inscriptions.....
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First Edition. 186 pages. Crews's third novel, "the story of the struggle between life (a woman) and death (another woman) for the small body and large soul of a midget masseur named Jefferson Davis Munroe"—the dust jacket. The dedication of this novel reads, "To the memory of my boy Patrick Scott Crews.....
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First Edition. 19 pages. Sylph Chapbook no. 1. A brief account of a minor traffic accident in England in 1984 and the bureaucratic response from the insurance company. Title-page and cover label lettering by Ralph Steadman. McClanahan was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he me Ken Kesey and became.....
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192 pages. Introduction by John Lennon. A new edition of Palmer's 1970 book about the rock music scene in the late 1960s. That edition, like this, was illustrated by Ralph Steadman with a dozen portraits of musicians, each incorporating a photographic element. This is one of 100 copies (out of 126).....
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First Edition. 255 pages. A collection of columns for the British newspaper, the Independent, written by Self and illustrated by Steadman. This collection includes many partial page, full page, and double page illustrations. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed.....
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First Edition. A diary of Ralph and Anna Steadman visits with Joe Petro III, a screenprinter, and an account of their seriograph collaborations between 1994 and 2000. The book is illustrated with drawings by Ralph and photographs by Anna. Published in an edition of 64 copies, this is one of.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A diary of Ralph and Anna Steadman visits with Joe Petro III, a screenprinter, and an account of their seriograph collaborations between 1994 and 2000. The book is illustrated with drawings by Ralph and photographs by Anna. Published in an edition of 64 copies, this is one of 50.....
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A new edition of Steadman's 1974 sequel to his children's book The Little Red Computer. With a new introduction by Steadman. This book was published first in German translation, with a UK edition appearing in 1983. The illustration style is typical of children's books of the late 1960s and early.....
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First Edition. A short account of Steadman's trip to Area 51 with his friend and screenprinter, Joe Petro III. The text appeared in different form in Hooked on the Outdoors (vol. 3, no. 5). Here it has a new introduction as well as color photographs and reproductions of drawings by.....
Price: $950
First Edition. A short account of Steadman's trip to Area 51 with his friend and screenprinter, Joe Petro III. The text appeared in different form in Hooked on the Outdoors (vol. 3, no. 5). Here it has a new introduction as well as color photographs and reproductions of drawings by.....
Price: $650
First U.K. Edition. 396 pages. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. The artist of Gonzo writes about his experiences with Hunter S. Thompson. The book is illustrated with many Steadman drawings, some of which appear here in print for the first time. This is the British edition, published two days after the US version.....
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A new edition of Steadman's 1969 children's book about a personal computer. With a new introduction by Steadman, who writes that when he wrote the book, he had never actually seen a computer. The illustration style is typical of children's books of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with moments.....
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First Edition. 29 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-3/4 inches. Sylph Chapbook no. 3. A short account of Hunter S. Thompson's "Red Shark", his 1970s Camaro Z-28. Illustrated from color photographs and drawings by Steadman. Kurt Vonnegut contributes a one-sentence introduction. The edition was 140 copies. This is one of 26 lettered copies laid.....
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First Edition. Ralph Steadman published this collection of poems—written by Kerr, a close friend—under his Steam Press imprint. Steadman illustrates each poem with a line drawing. The total edition was 68 copies. This is one of ten deluxe copies, signed by Kerr and Steadman, with a clamshell case, and an original.....
Price: $750
First Edition. Ralph Steadman published this collection of poems—written by Kerr, a close friend—under his Steam Press imprint. Steadman illustrates each poem with a line drawing. The total edition was 68 copies. This is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by Kerr and Steadman. 113 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-3/4 inches. First edition.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A limited edition of an early and previously unpublished semi-autobiographical short story about a struggling writer living in Greenwich Village, which Thompson wrote when he was a struggling writer living in New York City. Illustrated in typically exuberant style by Steadman. The final pages of the book are.....
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