Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller [FIRST EDITION / 1949]

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 

FIRST EDITION [1949] THE VIKING PRESS

Hardcover sans dust jacket in good condition. 

Cover has staining to orange cloth, but tightly bound and vibrant. 

Book itself has some foxing to outer text block but inside pages read beautifully.    Decorative endpapers at front of book have been inked on. [see last photos] 

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?