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, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright, very good or better dustwrapper that has a couple of small nicks to the edges and is without fading or loss. 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.