Simon Gray – The Smoking Diaries – The Trilogy (Smoking Diaries / The Year of the Jouncer / The Last Cigarette) – First Edition Set with one SIGNED

A first edition, first printing of The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray, published by Granta Books, London in 2004. A near fine copy free from inscriptions, with some slight bumping to the fore-edge of the text block. In a near fine wrapper with a little bumping to the extremities and damp-staining internally.

A first edition, first printing of The Year of the Jouncer by Simon Gray, published by Granta Books, London in 2006. A fine copy signed by the author in black ink to the title page, in a near fine wrapper with a little bumping to the extremities.

A first edition, first printing of The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray, published by Granta Books, London in 2008. A fine copy free from inscriptions, in a similarly fine unclipped wrapper.

Published in 2004, The Smoking Diaries began when playwright Simon Gray turned sixty-five and started recording his thoughts with little concern for conventional diary form. Digressive, candid and mordantly funny, it ranges across cigarettes, abandoned drinking, theatrical triumphs and disasters, adultery, shame, friendship, family and ageing. Gray presents himself without vanity, transforming anxiety, irritation and regret into comedy. Beneath its casualness lies a poignant meditation on memory, mortality and the consolations of love and companionship.