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1959 The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
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Description
Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The second impression of this collection of short stories from Alan Silitoe, published in the same month as the first impression. In the publisher's original pictorial dust wrapper.
An English writer and one of the so-called 'angry young men' of the 1950s, Sillitoe's titular story focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime. The boy turns to long-distance running as a method of both an emotional and a physical escape from his situation.
Further stories in the collection include 'Uncle Ernest', 'Noah's Park' and 'The Decline and Fall of Frankie Buller'.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail. Minor discolouration to dust wrapper back strip. Minor loss to back strip head, with small closed tears to head of rear wrap, and tail of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Near Fine
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