Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life - an intelligent, funny and humane novel. It was first published by Polygon in 1984.
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Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life - an intelligent, funny and humane novel. It was first published by Polygon in 1984.
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Add this copy of The Busconductor Hines / By James Kelman to cart. $151.00, like new condition, Sold by MW Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, G, IRELAND, published 1984 by Edinburgh: Polygon.
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Physical description: 237 pages; 21 cm. Notes: SIGNED copy. Subjects: Bus lines — Scotland — Glasgow — Employees — Fiction. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
Add this copy of Busconductor Hines (Everyman Fiction) to cart. $4.99, good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1985 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Add this copy of The Busconductor Hines to cart. $39.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Birlinn Ltd.
Add this copy of Busconductor Hines to cart. $56.00, like new condition, Sold by I Am Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minnetonka, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Polygon.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 240 p. Fiction series. Audience: General/trade. RARE Author signed hardcover+ dust jacket, 1984 Polygon Books. Clean tight copy no marks, Email for photos.
Add this copy of The Busconductor Hines to cart. $69.52, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Birlinn Ltd.
Add this copy of The Busconductor Hines to cart. $89.50, very good condition, Sold by Lorne Bair Rare Books, Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Winchester, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Polygon Books.
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First Impression. Octavo. (20.5 cm); blue paper-covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 237pp. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with a price sticker over the original price which reads £8.95; light rubbing and a small closed tear near the tail of spine; Very Good+. "The Busconductor Hines is [Scottish author] James Kelman's first novel. It begins with Rab Hines' life as a bus conductor and then shows him at home with his wife Sandra and son Paul. Things become increasingly awkward for him...The two worlds of home and work become less seperate as the novel progresses..." (from the dustjacket).
Add this copy of The Busconductor Hines to cart. $182.00, very good condition, Sold by Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA, ships from Fernandina Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Polygon Books.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First edition, first prnt. Signed by Kelman on the title page. Spine ends with tiny wrinkle; dustjacket with faintly toned spine and minimal edgewear, mostly at the corners and spine ends. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Kelman's first novel.
