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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Garioch's most well-known work is his satirical and humorous verse written in Scots, such as the Edinburgh Sonnets, Embro to the Ploy and The Canny Hen. These poems offer shrewd observations of the city and its inhabitants, and Garioch himself acknowledged the influence of another of Edinburgh's great poets, Robert Fergusson, in this respect. Garioch was also well-known as the translator into Scots of authors as disparate as Apollinaire, Pindar and the nineteenth-century Roman poet Guiseppe Belli, with whom he felt a particular affinity. He also wrote an autobiographical work, Two Men and a Blanket, in which he recounts his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Italy and Germany in the 1940s. Towards the end of his life, he was Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh University, and also worked as lexicographer and transcriber in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University. He died in 1981. This is the first major volume of Robert Garioch's poetry in over twenty years. Unlike the previous edition of his work (1983), it follows Garioch's own ordering of his poems, includes his own notes, as well as editorial explanations for readers unfamiliar with Garioch's Edinburgh background and. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002795152
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Shelf ware, corners and edges of covers and pages bumped, text block is a little grubby. Overall book is internally clean and in good condition. Seller Inventory # GH014
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Signs of wear (slightly heavier to the edges/corners) and several creases to the soft cover but otherwise the binding remains sound and the pages are clean with no inscriptions or annotations. Size: 9" - 10" tall. Weight: 475g. Seller Inventory # 001122
Book Description paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 267pp. (blue-mauve spine). Large 8vo. sized. 2004. First edition. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine copy. No inscriptions. A well preserved if not very well preserved copy. Seller Inventory # 024257
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 1904598072-2-3