Iain Banks — The Bridge
London, Macmillan, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. A fine signed presentation copy of the first edition of Iain Banks's third novel, in the striking original dust wrapper depicting the Forth Railway Bridge. Inscribed to the title page 'To Steve from Iain Banks 8/8/88&apos. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Banks said that of his novels, this was his personal favourite. "Definitely the intellectual of the family, it's the one that went away to University and got a first. I think The Bridge is the best of my books." A Kafkaesque novel about an amnesiac living on 'The Bridge' a fictionalised version of Scotland's Forth Railway Bridge, following a car crash. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptional. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
