POOR THINGS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's navy blue cloth decorated and with titles in silver to the upper board and spine, in the author illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight wit a couple of small bumps at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A publisher's promotional postcard for the novel is loosely laid in. Complete with the bright, lightly creased dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 net to the lower front flap).

Gray's sixth novel, dedicated to his wife, consists of "Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M. D., Scottish Public Health Officer, edited by Alasdair Gray". Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. The basis for the multi-award winning Yorgos Lanthimos directed film of the same name starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.