Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray (1983 First UK Edition Hardback)
Very Good condition used 1983 First Print UK Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket.
Published by Canongate Publishing Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Author and Illustrations: Alasdair Gray.
ISBN: 0862410290.
Approx. dims: 195mm h x 130mm w x 34mm d.
Intact clean, slightly sunned condition dust jacket within removeable protective Mylar sleeve, with slight signs of handling. Original inside DJ price intact. Intact DJ spine. DJ over very good condition dark blue cloth boards with gilt design and lettering to front and spine, sight rubbing to gilt. Previous owner’s name plate to inside first blank page. Small mark with small tear just below duck illustration on inside page ‘To The Good Angel…”. 274 clean slightly off white inside pages of English text with b&w illustrations, no inscriptions. Original ERRATUM slip in place. Page ends slightly off white. Images shown are of actual book for sale.
Synopsis: With his first collection of short fiction, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Scottish artist and author Alasdair Gray perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements which has since characterised his work.
Blending surrealism with absurdist comedy Alasdair Gray manages to create a unique mythology starting from the modern times and all down through the ages…
Like Gray’s best-known work Lanark, the book was published in the 1983 but contains work going back thirty years.