The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner.

£375 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

First edition of the author's renowned short story collection, featuring his award-winning title, 'The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner'. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize of 1959, and the inspiration for the 1962 film of the same name directed by Tony Richardson. First edition, first impression; 8vo; neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, cloth marked on upper cover, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, some spotting and soiling to rear panel, mild edge-wear, else very good.

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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