Sillitoe, Alan

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. London: W.H. Allen, 1958, original red cloth, dust-jacket; The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen, 1959, original light green cloth, dust-jacket; 8vo, slight offsetting to endpapers of second work, jacket of first work with a few creases and closed tears

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First editions in jackets of the author's first two books, his celebrated debut novel and follow up collection of short stories depicting contemporary northern working-class life. Both Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner were adapted for the cinema.