Karate Is A Thing of The Spirit

Karate Is A Thing of The SpiritKarate Is A Thing of The Spirit by Harry Crews First Edition, First Printing, Signed $600. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1971. Crews fourth novel inscribed to Director Paul Bartel To Paul: Live forever and get the work done. Best Harry Crews Both the book and the bright dust jacket in near fine condition with no owners signatures, book plates, price clipping, unfaded spine.

Book has a couple of small tears at the top of the spine (but which do not tear the cloth (see picture) and an owner’s inscription on the front free paste down otherwise clean

Howard’s fantasy world first edition and this Hannes Bok dust jacket make it a cornerstone for any fantasy book collector

Yellow endpapers have some discoloration

making the surviving copies exceedingly rare

chip at the top of the spine and a stray mark as shown in the picture

Catalogue at end of book as issued

Overall a very good collectible copy of this first edition by Ernest Hemingway

Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Overall a choice copy of this very rare first edition first state in complete unrestored collectible condition

A small owner’s signature at top right hand corner of the front free endpaper

Climber Heinrich Harrer whose first ascent of the Eiger North Face in 1938 electrified the climbing world

This is one of the greatest mountaineering books of all time