Iain Banks — A Song of Stone
London, Abacus, 1997 . First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of Iain Banks's disturbing novel about the violence of war, in the exceptional original dust wrapper. Flat signed by Banks to the title page. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Banks's dark novel follows an aristocratic couple who live in a small castle in an indeterminate place and time of civil war. The brutal female lieutenant of an outlaw band of guerrillas holds the couple prisoner in their home. Themes of decadence, violence and war are intertwined with the lives of the inhabitants of the castle, in a work which is inspired by J. G. Ballard's depictions of societal decline. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor mark to dust wrapper front wrap head, otherwise externally exceptional. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
