Title: Cockfighter
Author: Charles Willeford
Imprint & Number: Avon 20495
Cover price:
Publication date: 1974
Cover artist: photo
ISBN:
The above version of Willeford‘s novel, the 1974 movie tie-in edition with a Warren Oates photo cover, is valued between $25 and $150 according to Gary Lovisi’s Antique Trader Collectible Paperback Price Guide.
Cockfighter is the stunning novel of a singleminded man whose pursuit of the Cockfighter of the Year medal takes him into the seamy underbelly of rural Southern life…into the hot, dusty small towns where hoarse, sweating men crouch around a cockpit, cheering as two gamecocks with steel spurs tear at each other…and where beautiful willing women administer their own special brand of succor to winner and loser alike.
Title: Cockfighter
Author: Charles Willeford
Imprint & Number: Black Lizard
Cover price: 3.95
Publication date: 1987
Cover artist: Jim Kirwan
ISBN: 0-88739-026-9
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