KELMAN, James. How Late It Was, How Late. London: Secker and Warburg. 1994. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Colum Leith. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, perhaps just very slightly toned towards extremities from paper quality, but minor in truth. The dust jacket unclipped and complete, gently crimped and bumped along edges but a sharp copy overall.
Kelman’s most famous work, about Sammy, the shoplifter and ex-convict in Glasgow. It won the Booker Prize, much to the comic disgruntlement of the inside-London literati who felt the novel inaccessible.
KELMAN, James. How Late It Was, How Late. London: Secker and Warburg. 1994. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Colum Leith. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, perhaps just very slightly toned towards extremities from paper quality, but minor in truth. The dust jacket unclipped and complete, gently crimped and bumped along edges but a sharp copy overall.
Kelman’s most famous work, about Sammy, the shoplifter and ex-convict in Glasgow. It won the Booker Prize, much to the comic disgruntlement of the inside-London literati who felt the novel inaccessible.
