Gray Books
Current and Foreign Editions
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Gray Books | |
Current and Foreign Editions |
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A. Short Story Collections | ||
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1. The Comedy of the White Dog a)
Glasgow Print Studio Press, 1979 CONTENTS: The Comedy of the White Dog; The Crank Who Made the Revolution | ||
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2. Unlikely Stories, Mostly a)
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1983. CONTENTS: The Star; The Spread of Ian Nicol; The Problem; The Cause of Some Recent Changes; The Comedy of the White Dog; The Crank That Made the Revolution; The Great Bear Cult; The Start of the Axeltree: Five Letter From an Eastern Empire; Logopandocy: Prometheus: the End of the Axletree; A Likely Story in a Nonmarital Setting; A Likely Story in a Domestic Setting. b)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Press, 1984. c)
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997. CONTENTS: As the first edition with two additional stories, 'A Unique Case' and 'Inches in a Column'. Four stories are retitled: 'Logopandocy' as 'Sir Thomas's Logopandocy', 'Prometheus' as 'M Pollard's Prometheus', 'A Likely Story in a Nonmarital Setting' as 'A Likely Story Outside a Domestic Setting' and 'A Likely Story in a Domestic Setting' as 'A Likely Story Within a Domestic Setting'. A lengthy postscript by the author and Douglas Gifford, has been added. | |
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3.
Lean Tales a)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. CONTENTS:
James Kelman: Busted Scotch; The Same is Here Again; The Glenchecked
Effort; The Witness; Are You Driving, Sir?; In a Betting Shop to the Rear of Shaftesbury
Avenue; Where I Was; Extra Cup; Learning the Story; Getting There; the Paperbag;
Old Holborn; O Jesus, Here Come the Dwarves; Manufactured In Paris; The Place!;
A Nightboilerman's Notes; The City Slicker and the Barmaid; An Enquiry Concerning
Human Understanding. b)
London: Abacus, 1987. CONTENTS: As first Edition with three additional short tales in Gray's section: A Small Thistle; The Domino Game; Money. c)
London: Vintage, 1995 CONTENTS: As the Abacus edition. | |
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4. Ten Tales Tall & True: Social Realism, Sexual Comedy, Science Fiction and Satire a)
London: Bloomsbury, 1993. CONTENTS: Getting Started- a Prologue; House & Small Labour Parties; Homeward Bound; Loss of the Golden Silence; You; Internal Memorandum; Are You a Lesbian?; The Marriage Feast; Fictional Exits; A New World; The Trendelenburg Position; Time Travel; Near the Driver; Mr Meikle - An Epilogue; Notes, Thanks and Critic Fuel. "This book contains more tales than ten so the title is a tall tale too. I would spoil my book if I shortened it, spoil the title if I made it true." b)
New York: Hardcourt Brace, 1993. c)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994. A reprint of the Bloomsbury edition. the illustration of Mr Meikle at the end of the last story is embellished with the portraits of eleven other people. The list of works by Gray drops The State We Are In which was never published, but adds Occasional Poems which has also not yet appeared, and A History Maker which has. d)
San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995. A reprint of the UK paperback edition. The blurb on the back cover has been edited for the American Market. | |
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5. Five Letters From An Eastern Empire: Describing Etiquette, Government, Irrigation, Education, Clogs, Kites, Rumour, Poetry, Justice, Massage, Town-planning, Sex and Ventriloquism in an Obsolete Nation a)
London: Penguin Books, 1995. Originally collected in: Unlikely Stories Mostly. One of a series of sixty small books selling at 60p each to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Penguin Books in 1995. The title page verso incorrectly gives the copyright date as 1951. The text is not illustrated. the front cover features the wizened head of the emperor, printed in black and white on a red roundel. | ||
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6. Mavis Belfrage: A Romantic Novel With Five Shorter Tales a) London: Bloomsbury, 1996. 224p;
ill; £13.99; hbk First edition. Dedication: For Alexandra Gray when she is much older. CONTENTS: Mavis Belfrage; A Night Off; Mr Goodchild; Money; Edison's Tractatus; The Shortest Tale b)
London: Bloomsbury, 1997. CONTENTS: As the hard cover edition. The original jacket image has been cropped to show just Mavis with the buildings of Glonda in the background. three reviews are quoted on the back cover. | |
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B. Novels | ||
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| 1. Lanark: a Life in Four Books a)
Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1981. First edition. Dedication: For Andrew Gray b)
New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First US edition. Offset from the Canongate edition. c)
St Albans: Granada, 1982. d)
Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1985. The second hardcover edition, described as 'Definitive' comprising 1000 signed and numbered copies. e)
New York: George Braziller, 1985. As the Canongate hardcover edition but unsigned. f)
London, Picador, 1991. g)
San Diego: Harcourt Brace; 1996. h)
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, 2001. i)
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, 2002. |
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2. 1982, Janine a)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. b)
New York: Viking, 1984. As the UK hardcover edition c)
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. | |
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3. The Fall of Kelvin Walker: a Fable of the Sixties a)
Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1985. b)
New York: George Braziller, 1986. As the UK Hardcover Edition | |
| c) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986. | ||
| 142p; £2.95; pbk ISBN: 0-14-008424-X | ||
| Revised Edition - 'This King Penguin incorporates the author's corrections o the text of the first edition of Kelvin Walker, published by Canongate of Edinburgh' - half-title | ||
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New York: Grove Press (Evergreen), 1987 141p, $7.95; pbk ISBN: 0-8021-3004-6 | ||
| First US paperback edition | ||
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4. McGrotty and Ludmilla, or, The Harbringer Report a)
Glasgow: Dog and Bone, 1990 | |
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First Edition. Dedication: To the only begetter of this ensuing romance. Angel, all happiness and that eternity our bigheaded author wishes the wellwishing publiser setting forth. Typeset by Donald Saunders, this was the first publication from the Dog and Bone Press. Originally written in 1973 as a television play for a series based on nursery tales in a modern setting. | ||
5.
Something Leather a)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990 | ||
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edition. Dedication:, for Flo Allan. Designed and | ||
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b)
New York: Random House, 1900. | ||
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c)
London: Picador, 1991. | ||
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6.
Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless
M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer | ||
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. | ||
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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993. First paperback edition. | ||
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Sari Diego: Harcourt Brace (Harvest), 199 1. First US paperback edition. | ||
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7. A History Maker a)
Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1994. | ||
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b)
London: Penguin Books, 1995. | ||
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San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996. | ||
