Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985. First thus; limited "definitive" edition, following the first edition of 1981. No. 195 of one thousand copies signed and numbered by Gray on the front free endpaper. 560pp., black textured paper boards, gilt-stamped on boards and spine, in dust jacket. Small oval moisture stain to textblock top. Unclipped "£15" jacket mild sunning to spine. A handsome, near fine copy.
Gray's first book, over which he labored intermittently for more than two decades before finally seeing it through to publication in 1981. Something of a cult classic, though increasingly recognized as not only his masterpiece but one of the 20th century's most impressive feats of the imagination.
