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Gray, Alasdair.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly.
Publisher: Canongate Publishing, Edinburgh;
Date of Publication: 1985
Stock Code: 15190
First thus. Octavo, pp., 276. Author’s illustrations throughout. Publisher’s navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and wrap around gilt quote and motifs to upper and lower boards, illustrated end-papers, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips bumped, with accompanying small creases and a small 3mm closed tear to the spine head of the dust-jacket. A near fine copy in like dust-jacket. Lacking the joke erratum slip. Alasdair James Gray (1934–2019) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and translator. The dust-jacket, endpapers and illustrations within the text are all by Gray, in his now inimitable style. This was his first collection of short stories, seven of which had been previously published in various books and periodicals. £55.00