How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman Published by W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1995. First American Edition, First Printing. Signed by author James Kelman on title page. Very good hardcover, in very good dust jacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, sunning to dj spine. Octavo, 374 pages. Kelman’s groundbreaking, controversial and critically acclaimed novel won the Booker Prize in 1994.