SIGAL, Clancy. Weekend in Dinlock. London: Secker and Warburg. 1960. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Denis Piper. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock with light spots. The contents mostly fine, some light offsetting and scattered foxing to prelims. The dust jacket price-clipped, gently nicked and rubbed to the corners and tips, the spine a touch darkened.
An important proletarian novel which follows Davie, a man at odds with himself, a pendulum of careers between coal-mining and painting. The story is a thinly-veiled autobiography, Davie a stand-in for Len Doherty, an important proletarian novelist of some repute who has befriended Sigal when he came over to England from the US. Uncommon.
SIGAL, Clancy. Weekend in Dinlock. London: Secker and Warburg. 1960. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Denis Piper. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock with light spots. The contents mostly fine, some light offsetting and scattered foxing to prelims. The dust jacket price-clipped, gently nicked and rubbed to the corners and tips, the spine a touch darkened.
An important proletarian novel which follows Davie, a man at odds with himself, a pendulum of careers between coal-mining and painting. The story is a thinly-veiled autobiography, Davie a stand-in for Len Doherty, an important proletarian novelist of some repute who has befriended Sigal when he came over to England from the US. Uncommon.
