Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985. "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.
