First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of the signed sticker pasted to the title page. 8vo. 246pp. Yellow boards lettered in silver at the spine. A touch of light toning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's first novel.

SIGNED by author on front free end paper and dated 5 June 1981. Hard cover. Octavo [viii] 560 pages. Two minor closed tears to edge of dust jacket. Fine in a very good dust jacket. The first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow.Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray ""the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott""

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The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 1000 copies signed by the author on a special numbered leaf tipped before the title page. 8vo. 473pp. A trace of soiling to the top- and fore edge, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the lettered and decorated stiff card slipcase. The author's fourth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.

First edition, first printing. ""First edition September 1981"" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page. SIGNED, with the salutation ""Love,"" and dated ""1981"" with an original drawing of a flower with a teardrop, by the late author, poet, songwriter, and composer, to the front end-paper. Illustrated throughout by Heather Pearson. Each month begins with a decent-sized poem, and each day of the year contains a philosophical verse thought, inspiration verse, or short poem by McKuen. A presentable SIGNED collectible. Short crease to the corner tip of one page, else very nearly fine and firm in brown linen over creamy-sand boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a very good dust jacket with some short shelf-edge tears and mild crimps, minuscule nicks to the upper and lower spine edges, and a touch of fading to the spine panel; original printed $9.95 price still intact to the front inner flap which show a one-inch tear from the lower edge. Octavo.