Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 229, [3, ads]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Dustjacket price-clipped and a little rubbed to extremities.
The Dear Green Place.
- London: New Authors Limited 1966
£150
Notes
The first edition 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.
