The Gypsy's Curse by Crews, Harry

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 208 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine yellow and beige with black lettering. Dust jacket has very slight age toning with faint soiling and light wear to the edges. Text block has head edge purple with extremely light wear to the edges. Deckled fore edge. First Edition, First Printing. 1372373. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good +. 207 p. 22 cm. Yellow cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Faint soiling to white jacket and edges of cloth. A bawdy, often hilarious, totally unsentimental novel about a legless deaf-mute and a coño.

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover octavo, orange cloth boards with embossed gilt lettering on cover and spine in an illustrated dust jacket, 207 pp. Very good, light wear and soiling to cloth spine and ends, and lightly extended to cloth edges and corners, top paper edge has some minor soiling, slightest bowing of boards apparent, sound, clean and strong book./Very good, consistent light chipping and small tears to ends of spine which has some lightly rubbed spots, additional 4 tears (. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. 268 pp, white book plate affixed to pastedown over previous owner's name, else binding tight, with a very slight forward lean, pages clean and unmarked, DJ in protector, unclipped. 5.9" x 8.6" yellow cloth boards in illustrated DJ..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 207pp. Bright yellow cloth, embossed gilt.Stated First Edition. Spine leans, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has original price of $5.95 on the front flap, and a closed tear on the upper front panel which heals well in a mylar sleeve. "The Gypsy's Curse introduces us to a very strange cast of characters. The narrator, Marvin Molar, has stumps for legs and walks everywhere on his hands. He’s about three feet tall. He can’t speak or hear. Marvin lives in a gym with an old strongman by the name of Al, who frequently refers to himself in the third person. He once had his head run over by a car (deliberately, to prove how strong he is) and now his ear looks like a cauliflour. Leroy is a boxer who got beaten up so badly that he now stumbles around, ‘punch drunk’ in perpetuity. And Pete is an old black man who is so weak that even Leroy can beat him up easily. This unlikely cast reside in Al’s gym, where strongmen… Read More

NY: Knopf, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Yellow cloth with purple top edge stain. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464882

loose_leaf. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Some slight mottling to the spine, else a fine, unread copy in a fine, bright dust jacket with virtually no spine-sunning. It's not anybody who could write a bawdy, often hilarious, totally unsentimental novel about a legless deaf-mute who earns his keep by doing one-finger stands on arms the size of your average giant's thighs. Marvin Molar lives in a gym with Al -- a former stunt man who did tricks like having a car run over his body -- an old punchdrunk Negro fighter named Peter and an equally punchy young one named Leroy -- and finally, Hester, a "normal" whose revolving thighs drive Marvin absolutely insane. She is the "Gypsy's Curse." 208pp.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1974. 207 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Yellow cloth covered boards with silver titling to cover and spine, top edge stained purple, in an illustrated dustjacket with original price of $5.95 which is now in a mylar cover. Stated first edition. Some toning to spine of jacket, with some light nicks to head and one 15 mm closed tear to head of front panel at spine. Some light soil to jacket with light sticker ghosts over ISBN on rear and price on inside flap. Some light bumps to spine ends of book, and a few light spots on rear board. Signed in black ink by Crews on title page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound, albeit lightly cocked.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Stated First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only mild darkening to the book spine and pastedowns, and a couple of miniscule tears to the top of the back panel. SIGNED by the author to the half title page without inscription. A superlative copy of this novel; scarce in this condition, particularly with the signature. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.