SURVIVAL WITHOUT ERROR AND OTHER STORIES

by Iain Crichton Smith

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. Octavo, 223 pp., boards. First edition. The author's first book of short fiction. Mostly realistic stories of contemporary life, but includes several fanciful tales: Joseph, a retelling of the Genesis story, and The Idiot and The Professor and Some Others, a surrealistic fable. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with two short tears and mild associated wrinkle to lower edge of rear

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