Karate Is A Thing Of The Spirit

New York: William Morrow (1971). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 218 pp. Original eighth cream cloth over mango orange paper-covered boards, stamped in orange, in original unclipped ($5.95) dust-jacket. Medium edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear minor - with some rubbing and toning. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Handling wear present. Corners mostly quite sharp with some rubbing, curling. Panels show toning and smudges - along with some transfer spray. Foxing, toning and a few spots to page edges. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. Review slip laid in.

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.”