first edition
1969 · New York
by Gardner, Leonard
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. First edition. [iv], 183 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with orange cloth backstrip with black and white spine lettering, black topstain. Near Fine in a bright dust jacket with foxing to verso, small stain to front panel, unclipped ($5.50). The author's first and only novel, a gritty story of two boxers in Stockton, California. It inspired the acclaimed 1972 John Huston film by the same name.
(Inventory #: 140945548)