Stillitoe Alan (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. dj: fine in mylar minus rubbing to upper point f cover. book: fine to as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj: avg or less in mylar. book: less than avg, f flyleaf stuck to inside of f cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj: above avg in mylar. book: above avg.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Literary Magazine. Trade paperback size. 144 pages. VERY GOOD. All corners pointed but for slight bump to bottom right. Binding tight, without stress creases, with some slant. With slight curl to cover. No tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Hardback with remainder mark. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the literary equivalent of cigarette smoke trapped in wallpaper. Loud, restless, sharp-edged and permanently slightly hungover, Alan Sillitoe?s 1960 working-class classic arrives here in Fair condition from the heroic salvage operation known as Crappy Old Books, carrying slight water damage but remaining structurally sound. Much like Britain itself, really. This is the novel that helped define the angry young man era. Before kitchen-sink realism became a GCSE phrase muttered resentfully by teenagers, Sillitoe was already there documenting factory life, pubs, affairs, boredom, resentment and the determined pursuit of a good weekend in post-war Nottingham. Arthur Seaton barrels through the pages fuelled by beer, cynicism and the sort of industrial stamina modern office workers can barely comprehend. The physical condition of this particular copy actually feels strangely appropriate. A pristine copy of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning would almost seem suspicious, as though it had been purchased for decorative purposes by somebody who keeps vintage hard hats in a Shoreditch coffee shop. Slight water damage, however, suggests authenticity. This book looks like it may genuinely have lived through several decades of northern weather, overcrowded bookshelves, tea spillages, and perhaps one dramatic incident involving a leaking windowsill in a bedsit sometime around 1978. Fear not though: structurally sound. The literary equivalent of an old pub regular who wheezes ominously climbing the stairs but still somehow outlasts everybody else. Pan paperbacks from this era possess a very particular charm too. The paper has likely browned into that familiar ?vintage nicotine? hue beloved by second-hand bookshops everywhere. The spine may carry the subtle curvature of many committed readings or at least one prolonged stay stuffed into the pocket of a donkey jacket. Somewhere within the pages there is a strong possibility of finding an old bus ticket, an underlined existential sentence, or evidence that a previous owner fell asleep face-first somewhere around chapter six. As a novel, it still crackles with energy. Sillitoe writes with an impatience that feels startlingly modern. There is humour throughout, but also that persistent undertow of frustration and trapped ambition that made the book so important in the first place. Everyone talks about the ?anger? of this generation of writers, but what really lingers is the exhaustion. The sense of people working hard, drinking hard, and trying desperately not to think too much about Monday morning. Today, the world it describes has largely vanished. Many of the factories are gone. The pubs are quieter. The wages are somehow both higher and worse. But the mood of wanting freedom while simultaneously suspecting the system has already won remains perfectly intact. An essential slice of British literary history, slightly damp around the edges but still defiantly alive. Exactly the kind of book Crappy Old Books was born to rescue.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Literary Magazine. Trade paperback size. 144 pages. VERY GOOD. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creases, with slight slant. With bend to bottom cover. No tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Condition: New.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green boards with gilt titles to the spine. Tight square binding. Limited edition, one of only 500 copies. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

8vo, 176pp, b/w frontis. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Condition: New. pp. 232.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 222 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Flat spine FRONT COVER CORNER IS CREASED. Clean & tight. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref C512. Transatlantic Review. Spring 1962. Magazine. Number 9. Contribution from Jack Kerouac, Alan Stillitoe, Muriel Spark, Angus Wilson, James Hurst, George Moorse and others. Edited by J. F. McCrindle.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. A fine leather edition by Easton Press. Signed by author Stillitoe on signature page. Certificate of Authenticity laid in. Full leather with hubbed spine, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt and a satin ribbon bound in. Smyth-sewn binding with acid neutral paper. No scratches to gilt or fading to the endpapers as is common with these books. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #EP2. Signed by Author(s).

287 Rustica.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright though tanned (age). Binding tight. Boards tidy. Tanning to hard edges. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. Fading to spine. Size: 8vo. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition - Limited -. Copy #146/300, signed by each author in black pen. Fully bound in olive green leather and covers illustrated by amazing gilded reproduction of medieval woodcut depicting pagan goddess. With hand-printed Japanese endpapers and slip case of olive green leather. Near fine.