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9780857865618 | Canongate Books Ltd, May 1, 2015, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: Mixing new and previously published but revised writing, Gray explores his life and reflects on a half-century of artistic work in his witty, self-deprecating prose A winner of The Guardian Fiction Prize and The Whitbread Novel Award, Alasdair Gray has influenced a stream of authors and artists for 60 years...read more

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9781908885401 | Slp edition (Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2014), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Mixing new and previously published but revised writing, Gray explores his life and reflects on a half-century of artistic work in his witty, self-deprecating prose A winner of The Guardian Fiction Prize and The Whitbread Novel Award, Alasdair Gray has influenced a stream of authors and artists for 60 years.

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Product Description: Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world. Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand than in big ones like Britain and the U...read more

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9781782111696 | Canongate Books Ltd, August 1, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world.

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Product Description: Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales Droll & Plausible, all the original illustrations with some new, and endnotes to inform every curious reader.

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9780857865601 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 1, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales Droll & Plausible, all the original illustrations with some new, and endnotes to inform every curious reader.

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The autobiography in words and pictures of the fascinating and acclaimed author of Lanark, a key figure in postmodern art Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters, and murals. Alasdair started painting and writing from an early age, and in his seventies he's still vigorously doing both. In this autopictography he gathers together the work that has mattered most to him over the years, and weaves the story of his life through and around these pictures in his own unmistakable style. A beautifully and copiously illustrated book, designed by himself, this is life as seen by one of the millennium's most entertaining and wry creative geniuses.

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9781841956404 | Canongate Books Ltd, April 1, 2011, cover price $70.00
9780857860644 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 22, 2010, cover price $57.55 | About this edition: The autobiography in words and pictures of the fascinating and acclaimed author of Lanark, a key figure in postmodern art Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters, and murals.

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9781847671400 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, October 9, 2012), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This book will bring together for the first time poems from Alasdair Gray's published volumes, along with new and previously unpublished poetry. The book is designed and illustrated by the author.

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9781906120535 | Gardners Books, October 11, 2010, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: This book will bring together for the first time poems from Alasdair Gray's published volumes, along with new and previously unpublished poetry.

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Product Description: “Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.”—The Times (London)“Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.”—London Evening StandardAlasdair Gray’s unique melding of humor and metafiction at once hearken back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today’s literary mash-ups with equal comfort...read more
By Alasdair Gray (editor)

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9781931520690 | 1 edition (Small Beer Pr, June 1, 2010), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: “Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.

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Product Description: Glasgow, 'the dear green place', is the setting for Archie Hind's acclaimed novel. Mat Craig is a young Glaswegian working-class hero and would-be novelist, whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions...read more
By Alasdair Gray (introduced by)

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9781846970795 | Birlinn Ltd, March 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Glasgow, 'the dear green place', is the setting for Archie Hind's acclaimed novel.

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Constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock (as in the celebrated tea cake).
By Alasdair Gray (editor)

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9780747593539 | Ill edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, October 1, 2007), cover price $35.25 | About this edition: Constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock (as in the celebrated tea cake).

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A collection of stories by the author of Unlikely Stories, Mostly and 1982, Janine offers a re-imagining of the short story that pushes the form to its limits, evoking the work of Donald Barthelme and Kurt Vonnegut, among others. Reprint.

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9781841955476 | Canongate Books Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the author of Unlikely Stories, Mostly and 1982 returns with his first collection in seven years, offering a series of funny, magical tales of modern life.

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9781841956268 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, February 21, 2005), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories by the author of Unlikely Stories, Mostly and 1982, Janine offers a re-imagining of the short story that pushes the form to its limits, evoking the work of Donald Barthelme and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.

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A novel that takes place over the course of a single night, inside the mind of Jock McLeish, an aging, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he drinks away the evening in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel explores the issues of male inadequacy and need, Republicanism, pornography, power, and sex.

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9780670513871, titled "1982, Janine" | Viking Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $1.00 | About this edition: As Jock McLeish drinks alone in a hotel room, he drunkenly looks back on the wild adventures of his eventful life

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9781841953465, titled "1982, Janine" | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, July 1, 2003), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A novel that takes place over the course of a single night, inside the mind of Jock McLeish, an aging, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he drinks away the evening in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel explores the issues of male inadequacy and need, Republicanism, pornography, power, and sex.
9780140071108 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: As Jock McLeish drinks alone in a hotel room, he drunkenly looks back on the wild adventures of his eventful life

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Product Description: This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying...read more

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9781841951201 | Slp edition (Canongate Books Ltd, March 1, 2003), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century.
9780807611081 | George Braziller, March 1, 1985, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone

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9781841951836 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, November 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone, in a new edition that includes the author's Tailpiece, an addendum to the original novel.

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A history of literature as presented through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers includes commentary by a range of authors including James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, and Virginia Woolf. By the author of Poor Things. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Alasdair Gray (editor)

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9781582343242 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, January 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A history of literature as presented through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers includes commentary by a range of authors including James Kelman, A.

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Product Description: "The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott." Anthony Burgess

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9780151730766 | Harcourt, March 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean

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9781564783073 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.
9780156000680, titled "Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer" | Harvest Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean

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9780862416713 | Canongate Books Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $9.95

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Stories describe a Chinese emperor's court poet, the sun, the Industrial Revolution, falling stars, an art school, and a magical dog (view table of contents)

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9780862417376 | Subsequent edition (Canongate Books Ltd, March 1, 1998), cover price $13.00
9780140069259 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1984, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Stories describe a Chinese emperor's court poet, the sun, the Industrial Revolution, falling stars, an art school, and a magical dog

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In a story set in Scotland's Ettrick Forest in the twenty-third century, Wat Dryhope is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle until he is challenged by Delilah Puddock and her plot to restore the competitive exploitation of human resources

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9780151002078 | Reprint edition (Harvest Books, May 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a story set in Scotland's Ettrick Forest in the twenty-third century, Wat Dryhope is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle until he is challenged by Delilah Puddock and her plot to restore the competitive exploitation of human resources

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9780156003629 | Harvest Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In a story set in Scotland's Ettrick Forest in the twenty-third century, Wat Dryhope is unhappy about his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle until he is challenged by Delilah Puddock and her plot to restore the competitive exploitation of human resources

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Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone

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9780156003612 | Harvest Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone
9780807611623 | Reprint edition (George Braziller, August 1, 1986), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Lanark, an inhabitant of the sunless city of Unthank, mysteriously turns up at the Institute, where he consults the Oracle and, in search of his past, embarks on a journey through the Intercalendrical Zone

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9780156001960 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 1995), cover price $11.00

Ten stories, told in different voices, by the author of Poor Things, touch upon such themes as the train of the future, a portrait of old age, and a child deciding whether to be male or female. 15,000 first printing.

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9780151000906 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Stories told in different voices touch upon such themes as the train of the future, a portrait of old age, and a child deciding whether to be male or female

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