David Storey — This Sporting Life

London, Longmans, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, third impression copy of David Storey's first novel, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition in the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper.The first edition, third impression, first published in 1960. David Storey's first novel, This Sporting Life is a renowned work of "kitchen sink" realism, detailing the life of Arthur Machin, a professional rugby league player in Northern England. The novel won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was adapted into a famous 1963 film. In the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Dust wrapper very smart with light spotting and a few small chips to tail of backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with occasional light spotting, heaviest to first and last few. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.