Poor Things

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, (1992). First edition, 2nd printing. 8vo. 317 pp. Original quarter steel blue rough cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($21.95) dust-jacket. Some light handling and edge wear to jacket. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear. Spine a bit flat. Remainder mark to top text block. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1992. The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the London Review of Books. It is a departure from Gray's usual subject-matter of Glasgow realism and fantasy. However, its Victorian narrative takes in Gray's previous concerns with social inequalities, relationships, memory and identity. Poor Things contains illustrations by Alasdair Gray, which the text claims are by the Scottish etcher and illustrator William Strang. It was adapted to film in 2023 and was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.”