Car

New York: William Morrow, (1972). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 152 pp. Original octavo cornflower blue paper-covered boards over black cloth, spine stamped in blue, red, in original unclipped ($5.95) dust-jacket. Moderate edge wear, a few nicks, tiny tears to edges. Wear particular to spine ends and corners. A few creases to flaps. A few creases and surface scratches to jacket. Some mild toning. Protected in archival mylar. Book is mostly tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges, particular to spine crown. Has a few scratches to panels. Corners touched. Page edges with vintage toning, mildly dusty. Interior is clean and unmarked. Signed by the author to the pre-title page.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Harry Crews was born June 7, 1935, during the Great Depression to two poor tenant farmers in Bacon County, Georgia. His father died while he was still a baby, and his mother soon remarried to his father's brother. Crews was unaware that this man was not his biological father until years later. Car is about a man who, in public and before national TV cameras, will eat a car, eat it, in his own words, 'from bumper to bumper.' He loves the car. And Car is about the love of cars.”