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Gray, Alasdair.
Lanark: A Life in 4 Books.
Publisher: Canongate Publishing, Edinburgh;
Date of Publication: 1985
Stock Code: 7224
Definitive Edition (reprint). Signed, numbered and dated by the author to the front free endpaper. Octavo, pp. [8], 561, [7]. No. 659 of 1000 copies. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine and wrap around gilt quotation to upper and lower boards in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with rare, original glassine dust-jacket covering. Fine book in near fine dust-jacket. Very light edge wear to the glassine dust-jacket protector with very small area of loss and a little staining to rear panel but in very good condition. The ‘definitive’ edition of the Author’s first book in an edition of 1,000 copies only. Hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century it was on the basis of Lanark that Anthony Burgess called Gray the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. This definitive edition was reprinted in 1985. Scarce signed, especially so in the original fragile glassine wrapper. £350.00