The Hustler

by Walter Tevis

$1,250 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First edition. 214 , 1 pp. Original red cloth and gray paper covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with bumped corners in edge-chipped and lightly soiled dust jacket, two mends on verso, and yet unsunned and unclipped, Good+. The inspiration for the 1961 Robert Rossen film starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie and Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats. Item #140937140

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