History Maker by Gray: Signed (9 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. First paperack edition. 404pp. Illustrated softback covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A light crease to the front cover, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. The history of the High Street and shopping from the Middle Ages to the 1970s and beyond. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. GRAY, Alasdair. A History Maker. Edinburgh: Canongate. 1994. 8vo. First edition, being one of a limited edition of 250 copies each signed and numbered by the author, this number 11. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the wraparound dust jacket, all of which designed by Gray. A fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. A kilted science fiction yarn set in the twenty-third century over the Scottish border, full of poetry and porridge, courage and sex. Uncommon signed. Alasdair Gray (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in modern times, who passed away on 29 December 2019. The work has its roots in his 1970s play 'The History Maker'. Upon publication, the author signed and hand numbered 250 copies of this book, of which this is number 201. As ever, the dustjacket, cloth cover design, and the text include the author's own designs and illustrations. Published by Canongate Press, Edinburgh, 1994. First edition, first impression. A near fine blue cloth hardback with metallic silver cover design. Dustjacket is clean and unmarked, with some slight age toning to edges. Text pages are bright, clean and soundly bound, with mild age toning to page edges. Signed and numbered by the author in pen, to half title page. Text in English. XV+ 222pp + 2pp. Dimensions: Approximately 203mm high x 135mm wide x 25mm deep. Weight approximately 352g. Alasdair Gray (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. An excellent copy of this first UK edition of A History Maker by Alasdair Gray, a science fiction novel set in a future independent Scotland. By the author of Lanark and Poor Things. Signed by Alasdair Gray at the half-title. Condition: about Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Minor rubbing to the top corner of the dustjacket at the front board and spine tips. Signed by Author(s). …

First edition. Original decorative blue/silver boards. Fine in Fine unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by author on front free endpaper.

First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and covers; dustjacket; xvi,[1]-222,[4]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £13.99), with pinpoint wear to corners at upper flap folds. 8851.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. GRAY, Alasdair. A History Maker. Edinburgh: Canongate 1994. Inscribed warmly and at length to his first agent Zandra Hardie by the author: TO AUNT ZANDRA, With thanks for advice/ which helped me make the/ first chapter leaner and fitter/ Alasdair/ 15 November/1994/ P.S. This book looks better/ without the dust jacket . Laid in is a postcard of a Gertrude Degenhardt harp player with birds on the front and a note from Gray to Zandra Hardie, his agent, on the back. The note covers a number of subjects including a contract, I assume for the History Maker, Yes you are right the contract has engendered wasteful fuss which has made Gray feeling, like a mulberry bush which my friend Stephanie (Stephanie Wolfe Murray, the co-founder of Canongate, the publisher of his first novel, Lanark.) has got round . . . he expresses no ill-will on this point however rather expressing concern for her and hope that the shadows under her eyes. . .may fade now Canongate has young Mr Byng at the helm or prow or pumps: probably all three. Canongate had been in financial difficulties until Jamie Byng waved his magic silver spoon at it and the Life of Pi thumbed out a plum. The note also broaches the subject of his Anthology, where he laments he will probably have to write another novel before he is likely to feel financial secure enough to tackle, the completion of something so big . Indeed Gray had to write the short novel 'Mavis Belfrage', published in 1996 before he finally completed his anthology, 'The Book of Prefaces', in 2000. Postcard in fine condition; Book and dj in Fine condition. Note: Xandra Hardie became Alasdair Gray s literary agent in 1988, and began by taking over negotiations with Jonathan Cape over the publication of Something Leather. In 1993 Gray would dedicate his book of stories, Ten Tales Tall and True, equally to Zandra Hardie, Tom Maschler and his wife Morag McAlpine. The Dedication reads: To the onelie begetters of these stories. Tom Maschler and Zandra Hardie and Morag McAlpine . Signed by Author(s).…

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); royal blue paper-covered boards and dark blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xvi,[1]-223,[1]pp; illus. Signed by the author on the front endpaper, dated 25.3.1996. Base of spine very gently nudged, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $25.00). 8850.…

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, decorated in silver, dust jacket. Edinburgh, Canongate Press. Upon publication of the work, Gray signed and numbered 250 copies, of which this is no. 16.  A fine copy.