Grieve C M Et Al (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 142, 2-page publisher's list dated November 1920. Original cloth-backed boards, lettered gilt to spine. Light wear to the top and bottom of the spine and edges. Internally clean and sound. A nice copy.

First Edition. Collection of poems by contemporary poets by MacDiarmid under the Grieve name, including three under his MacDiarmid nom de plume. Softcovers, 31pp. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Scottish edition. 8vo. 130 pp. + [2] pp. Ads. Quarter blue cloth with illustrated gray paper over boards. Rubbing base of spine and bottom right hand corner of front cover bumped else this is a tight, very good book in the uncommon DJ which has chips at the baskstrip extremities and bottom front fore edge. Uncommon thus.…

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding at pp.90/91. Moderate rubbing and toning to boards. Very good. The first appearance in print of the poet Christopher Murray Grieve, leader of the Scottish Literary Renaissance who would later publish under the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid. This first issue of Northern Numbers, containing strong contributions from the likes of John Buchan, Violet Jacob, and Neil Munro, was very favourably reviewed, with particular praise directed towards the editor Grieve who, according the Glasgow Herald, "possesses more talent and latent power than any other contributor to this book.".…