Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting – First UK Edition 1993 – Grey Titles
£875.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Trainspotting’ published by Secker and Warburg in 1993. A very good book without inscriptions. Clean pages. Some wear to the corners and edges. Spine creased but unfaded – small handling marks and wear to the panels. With the French flaps. 1/1000 copies printed – this with grey titles and not the usual orange.
A gritty, darkly humorous novel about heroin addiction, poverty, and disillusionment in 1980s Edinburgh. Following Mark Renton and his misfit friends—Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie—the book explores their chaotic lives through fragmented, Scottish dialect-driven narratives. Themes of escapism, self-destruction, and moral decay dominate, as characters navigate addiction, violence, and betrayal. The novel’s raw, unflinching style made it a cult classic, later adapted into a landmark 1996 film.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Trainspotting’ published by Secker and Warburg in 1993. A very good book without inscriptions. Clean pages. Some wear to the corners and edges. Spine creased but unfaded – small handling marks and wear to the panels. With the French flaps. 1/1000 copies printed – this with grey titles and not the usual orange.
A gritty, darkly humorous novel about heroin addiction, poverty, and disillusionment in 1980s Edinburgh. Following Mark Renton and his misfit friends—Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie—the book explores their chaotic lives through fragmented, Scottish dialect-driven narratives. Themes of escapism, self-destruction, and moral decay dominate, as characters navigate addiction, violence, and betrayal. The novel’s raw, unflinching style made it a cult classic, later adapted into a landmark 1996 film.
