Chaplin (Sid) The Day of the Sardine
£75
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
The first edition of Chaplin’s most famous work, considered a classic of ‘working class existentialism’, set in Newcastle upon Tyne at the very beginning of the 1960s.
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Boards slightly softened at head of spine; jacket a little rubbed at extremities, with some chipping to head of spine, otherwise very good.
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