A Kind of Loving

First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 286pp. Black cloth slightly marked. Foxing to edges and some off-setting to endpapers. Name and date in small script to front paste-down. Jacket toned and with a stain to head of lower panel. Chipped to corner tips and spine ends. *** First novel by Stan Barstow (1928-2011), the story of a young man navigating love, responsibility and marriage in an industrial town in Yorkshire. A classic of postwar British literature, adapted into a film directed by John Schlesinger in 1962.