JAMES KELMAN. — Kieron Smith, Boy. A novel. (INSCRIBED)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Sarah from Jim K. all the very best with great regard & love May 2008" (the recipient being Sarah Smith, co-founder alongside her partner John La Rose of New Beacon Books [and the daughter of musicologist Eric Walter White]). 8vo. 422pp. Green boards lettered in silver at the spine. A hint of toning to the leaf margins, and a tiny nick and some light accompanying creasing to the margin of a single text leaf. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed and a little marked and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's seventh novel, winner of the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year., Very Good, Good