Bound for Glory

Illustrated with sketches by the author. Foreword by Pete Seeger. First UK edition, 1969. Hardback in dust jacket. 430pp. Publisher’s grey cloth boards, stamped in black to spine. Jacket slightly rubbed with some creasing and tiny chips and tears to edges. Jacket design by Terry James.A near fine copy. *** Woody Guthrie’s fictionalised autobiography, originally published in America in 1943. A new edition, with a foreword by Pete Seeger, came out in 1968. It was followed in 1969 by this UK edition, the first appearance of Guthrie’s book in this country. “I went through it from cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio. BOUND FOR GLORY is a hell of a book. It’s huge. Almost too big.” (Bob Dylan, Chronicles 1)