Author: Sillitoe, Alan:
Title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Description: London: W.H. Allen 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.176. Internally very clean. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slightly cocked, some faint stains to cloth, stripe of toning near gutter to each free endpaper, illegible ms initials to front pastedown, good. Dust jacket a little creased at edges, price intact, very good. The author's second book, a Hawthornden Prize-winning collection of short stories; published one year after the success of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. The eponymous lead story was the basis for the highly-regarded movie (of the same title) directed by Tony Richardson.

Keywords: (Post-Renaissance) Arts & Literature;Modern First Editions


See more books from our catalog: (Post-Renaissance) Arts & Literature