The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
W. H. Allen, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing of the first edition. Book in VG condition in a VG unclipped dust-jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, brown area to endpapers from jacket flaps offsetting. A bit of wear to fore-edge of some pages (see picture). 176p.
Synopsis
Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928, the son of a tannery worker. He left school at age fourteen to work in a factory. He was one of the working-class novelists who revitalized British fiction in the 1950s. His first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was followed with the bestselling collection The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner . He adapted both works for the screen in the early 1960s. He is the author of more than 40 works of prose, poetry, and drama.
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- Bookseller
- Barlow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00694
- Title
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- Author
- Alan Sillitoe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- W. H. Allen
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- MODERN FIRSTS
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Flap(s)
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...