Lean Tales

First edition. 8vo. 286pp., 3 b/w illus. Publisher's navy blue cloth boards, decorated in gilt; teal green endpapers. Jacket design and authorial portraits by Alasdair Gray.

Signed by James Kelman (1994 Booker Prize-winner) at his attribution. An immaculate copy.

Short story anthology. Contractually obliged to Jonathan Cape for a new book, Gray found himself stumped for new material and so approached Kelman and Owens to bulk out a collection of stories with some of their own. "Sophisticated themes and subversive commitments identify this Glaswegian trio." –London Review of Books