Description
UNCORRECTED PROOF, 8vo, pp. 229, [3, ads]. Original grey wrappers printed in black, colour-printed dustjacket. Spine creased, dustjacket chipped and bruised at edges, a little rubbed to folds.
The Dear Green Place.
- London: New Authors Limited 1966
£150
Notes
An uncorrected proof copy of Archie Hind's only novel, a portrait of a working-class Glasgow writer that won Guardian Fiction Book of The Year Award. In 2005 it was selected as one of the 100 best Scottish books of all time by The List magazine, and its reputation has grown in recent years following Hind's death in 2018: it has been republished by Canongate with an introduction by Hind's close friend Alasdair Gray, and in 2024 its manuscript was acquired by Strathclyde University with the rest of Hind's papers.
The dustjacket on this copy is an unlaminated and differently-trimmed variant of that used for the book's first boards issue upon publication, which owing to its thicker paper and hard covers is a larger book; this dustjacket is therefore a touch oversized and his suffered some damage to the edges.
