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Charles Willeford. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, 1972.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket has minor rubbing to the edges and folds with a one-inch chip to the top edge of the jacket spine, price clipped from the front inner flap. Yellow cloth boards have only minor wear with some dust soiling to the edges. Has a good binding, no marks or notations. Mild foxing and dusting to the page edges. 247 pages.

Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Charles Willeford. The Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, 1972.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition thus, first hardcover edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Clean and bright copy with slight discoloration along top edges of yellow cloth boards and faint foxing to fore-edge. Quite presentable.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

WILLEFORD, CHARLES. COCKFIGHTER. CROWN PUBLISHERS 1972, 1972.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in Near Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Paperback A COUPLE OF SMALL CHIPS AND TEARS TO THE DUST JACKET Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box

Seller: Mystery Mike's, Carmel, IN, U.S.A.

Charles Willeford. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, 1972.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Description: First Hardcover Edition, preceded by paperback in 1962. Clean bright boards. Unmarked clean pages. Pen mark on front fly. DJ is shelf worn at edges and spine. Small tape repairs to underside of DJ.

Seller: Flip Your Wig, Cloverdale, CA, U.S.A.

WILLEFORD, CHARLES. COCKFIGHTER.. Crown Publishers, 1972.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chipping, closed tears.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

WILLEFORD, Charles. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. 247. Original yellow boards, lettered in red to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a little light edgewear, most noticeably at spine ends. First hardback edition, with some textual differences from the first edition published as a paperback original in 1962. Charles Willeford [1919-1988] -- orphan, boxcar rider, soldier as soon as he was old enough -- proved an unplaceable talent for most of his career: too intellectual for the sleazier imprints, too brutal for the mainstream, and too weird for just about everybody. Cockfighter is a case in point: a take on Homer's Odyssey, it follows a mute hero through the American South, making his way in a subculture where chickens are forced to fight to the death for sport. The book was first published by the Chicago Paperback House, an offshoot of a soft-core porn imprint, in 1962. It disappeared without trace. Slightly rewritten, it was republished in this edition in 1972, and filmed two years later by Monte Hellman with a cast including Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton, from Willeford's own screenplay. A 70s indie high spot, the film is now difficult to track down (and a difficult watch if you manage to). A well preserved copy of some kind of classic.

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Willeford, Charles. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by the 1962 paperback edition, with some textual differences. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with spine lettered in metallic red. Softening to spine ends, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed at the extremities and with a small stray ink mark to the front panel. Served as the basis for the 1974 film bearing the same name.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Charles Willeford. Cockfighter (First Edition). Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Chicago Paperback House in 1962. Basis for the 1972 Monte Hellman film, for which Willeford wrote the screenplay and played a key supporting role, and starred Warren Oates in a little-known but brilliant performance as Mansfield. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

WILLEFORD, Charles. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, Inc, New York, 1972.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First hardcover edition (preceded by a paperback). Very faint price-sticker shadow on front pastedown, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket lightly rubbed and with a short closed tear on the front panel. Basis of the 1974 film, *Born to Kill,*starring Warren Oates, and directed by Monte Hellman. This hardcover edition has slightly revised text from the 1962 paperback edition.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

WILLEFORD, CHARLES.. COCKFIGHTER.. Crown Publishers, Inc., [1972]., New York, 1972.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: First hardcover edition. Review copy with review slip laid-in. Basis for the 1972 Monte Hellman movie that starred Warren Oates as a worn-out former cockfighting champion, who when he loses, he loses everything. Willeford wrote the screenplay and had a role in the movie. Yellow cloth lightly soiled, else fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and lightly rubbed along fore-edge. Review copies are uncommon of this title.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.

Charles Willeford. Cockfighter. Crown Publishers, 1972.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First hardcover edition, first printing, signed by Willeford to the flyleaf. Preceded by the 1962 paperback original, with slightly revised text, the novel served as the basis for the 1974 film, "Born to Kill," starring Warren Oates, and directed by Monte Hellman. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. Publisher's original orange cloth boards with red title to spine; pp. 274. A very good copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and square, boards show light rubbing and soiling, internally clean. The dust jacket remains bright and vivid, showing just a touch of shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Charles Willeford. Cockfighter (First Hardcover Edition, inscribed in 1973). Crown Publishers, New York, 1972.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original published by Chicago Paperback House in 1962. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, with typical dry wit: "To Palmer [and] Marge Carlson - / Your determination in getting this book almost-almost-matches Frank Mansfield's. My warmest personal regards. Yours, / Charles Willeford / 17 Feb 1973." Scarce signed. The "Frank Mansfield" to whom Willeford refers is the narrator of "Cockfighter," a disgraced gamecock trainer who has taken a vow of silence (which, at the start of the novel, has lasted over two years) until he wins the elusive Cockfighter of the Year Award. The author's uncommon second hardcover title. Basis for the 1972 Monte Hellman film, for which Willeford wrote the screenplay and played a key supporting role, starring Warren Oates in a little-known but brilliant performance as Mansfield. Fine and unread in a Very Good only dust jacket. Owner name matching the inscription on the front pastedown. Jacket is chipped and rubbed, with light toning to the spine, and a sticker shadow to the rear panel.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.