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Published by New American Library, New York, 1961
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. First Edition. Vintage Paperback, Signet D1928; a collection of short stories that provides a clear view of the factories, slums and street life of England's lower classes in the 1950's; First Signet Edition, First Printing; slight spine lean and age-browning, o/w clean and tight; wrappers show minimal surface and edgewear, spine is somewhat discolored with three small black marks.
Published by Signet, US, 1961
ISBN 10: 0451132149ISBN 13: 9780451132147
Seller: Keeper of the Page, Enumclaw, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Signet 1961 1st Printing Very Good/ Light wear to bright cover, tiny mended spine tear, tight lightly tanned pages.
Published by Vintage, 2010
ISBN 10: 0307389642ISBN 13: 9780307389640
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Used - Like New. 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. Small Publisher's Mark To Text Block. Otherwise, Fine.
Published by Vintage, 2010
ISBN 10: 0307389642ISBN 13: 9780307389640
Seller: Textbooks_Source, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Published by signet book,, 1961
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first PB. 1928, very good -fine, , reading crease (COLLECTION OF 9 STORIES), paperback,
Published by signet book,, 1961
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first PB. 1928, almost near fine, (COLLECTION OF 9 STORIES), paperback,
Seller: Gryphon Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st Paperback Printing. Signet Book #D1928, 1961, 1st paperback printing, rare US crime teens JD vinatge paperback, young criminals in UK, hell-raising rebels from lower class mill towns in UK, wild, nice copy, bright and firm, minor wear and age, still VG+. Vintage Paperback.
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket front flap removed. (Great Britain, working class, short stories).
Published by Continental Distributing, CA, 1962
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG++. First Edition. Original Movie Lobby Card from the movie. Scene depicts head shot of Tom Courtenay. Size: 11" X 14". Original Movie Lobby Card.
Published by Pan Books, 1961
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition Thus. 189 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Small split to hinge at bottom of rear board.
Published by Harper Perennial, 2007
ISBN 10: 000779214XISBN 13: 9780007792146
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Book First Edition
Condition: New. 2007. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .
Published by Knopf, 1960
ISBN 10: 0394433890ISBN 13: 9780394433899
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Knopf, 1959. Octavo. Black cloth over red boards stamped in gold with green topstain. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Boards have light shelf wear and light offsetting to back board. No dust jacket. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 176 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!.
Published by Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1962
Seller: LLIBRES del SENDERI, Barcelona, CAT, Spain
First Edition
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Aceptable. 1ª Edición. (Literatura inglesa. Novela). Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1962. Biblioteca Formentor. Traducción de Baldomero Porta. 1 h. 194 p. 3 h. 8º. Cartoné editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada por Oriol Maspons y M. Grau. Ésta con pérdida en basedel plano posterior. Buen ejemplar. Primera edición en castellano. First spanish edition.
Published by London. Pan Books Ltd., 1961
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London. Pan Books Ltd. 1961. First Printing in this edition. Soft Covers. Wonderfully preserved ; reading crease to spine but ends have no wear. Covers are age toned as well as text block. Crease to lower corner which continues on lower corner of front matter. Iconic cover art; a scarce edition. Also included in this edition is The Rats; a poem by the . A short story focusing 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 emotional and physical escape from his situation. Very attractive period copy.
Published by Knopf, 1990
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Later Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.
Published by W, 1962
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1962. W. H. Allen. First reprint. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG, protective covered. 8x5.5. 176pp. Written in the 1960s, this novel tells the story of a boy in Borstal who, set to run in a race, seizes a magnificent and foolproof opportunity to show his defiance of authority. It brilliantly captures working-class life at the time.
Published by W.H. Allen, London, 1959
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: NF/F. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Second printing from September 1959, the same month as the first printing. PON to FEP, otherwise a NF/F copy in a NF dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Basis for the 1962 film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage. A collectible copy. Book.
Published by W H Allen, 1959
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A VG First Edition, second printing in a VG unclipped DJ.good clean book, pages & edges toned, offsetting to ep, spine ends pushed. DJ worn to edges, chipped to base of spine. decent copy.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Quarter gilt-titled black cloth with mauve boards, faded green topstain. Stated first American edition. Trace insecting to board edge. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, lightly toned to spine, slightly edgeworn/rubbed, few minor small stains. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1960
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First American Edition. First American edition stated on copyright page. Quarter bound in black cloth over rust colored boards blindstamped with author's initials to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Greenish blue topstain still pretty bright. Well bound, tight and square. No markings. Price clipped jacket has shallow chipping to spine ends and rubbing/light soiling to rear panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lightly rubbed, a small poke near the bottom of the front panel. Quarter black buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. A collection of eight short stories, with the titular story being about an English reform school boy who "seizes a foolproof opportunity during the annual cross-country race to show his defiance of authority.".
Published by W.H. Allen, London, 1959
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 176pp. Gray boards, gilt titles on spine. Binding tight, slight spine lean, square corners. Some offsetting from jacket flaps on endpapers, and pages internally are evenly toned. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is crisp and intact, with only very minor edgewear. Original 12s 6d price on lower front jacket flap. Sillitoe's second book, following Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and building on his reputation as one of postwar Britain's "angry young men.". 8vo.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped jacket. 176pp. The title story of this collection was adapted by British cinema in a feature directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Tom Courtenay in the title role, with Michael Redgrave and James Bolam. Q06291.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 144 pages. First American paperback edition, first printing. Signet #1928. His second book and first book of nine short stories. Made into the 1962 Tony Richardson movie starring Tom Courtney & Michael Redgrave. It won the 1960 Hawthornden Prize for the best work of imagination in prose. Near fine book with just a trace of rubbing to the front cover. A beautiful copy!.
Published by Norwalk: The Easton Press, 2002
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Bound in full dark green leather with all edges gilt, this copy is in new condition. It's signed by the author and comes with a certificate of authenticity from the publisher. 176 pages. Signed by Author(s).
Published by W. H. Allen, 1959
Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book has some offsetting due to dust wrapper flaps and touch of discoloration to the front board edges; otherwise fine. Dust jacket is unfaded and unclipped (12s 6d net) but somewhat darkened back panel, Some edgewear including upper and lower spine and tips. 1.5-inch tear at head of spine and front panel joint.
Published by W. H. Allen, 1959
Seller: Barlow Books, Chesterfield, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.
Published by Flamingo, 1994
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, fine condition. The loneliness of the long distance runner Special Collection by Alan Sillitoe. Published by Flamingo in 1994. Paperback. From the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the grim isolation of the working class. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1960
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth and Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The first American edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960. A particularly striking copy. A fine example of the book in a near fine dust jacket with just the lightest trace of wear to the spine ends.
Published by London: W.H. Allen, 1959
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Ocvtavo, pp 176. Bound in olive green cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket which is un-clipped (12s 6d net). The book has a near previous owner's name and date to the front free endpaper and is otherwise in clean Near Fine condition. The jacket is Very Good with a little edge wear and a 1cm closed tear at the head of the spine.