Hugh Mcdiarmid (32 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hutchinson of London, c.1961, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 220pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $.

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 21.5 cms. Category: The Adelphi; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised edition. Inscribed to poet W.M. Merchant and signed by MacDiarmid on the FFEP. Panel edges are lightly shelf worn and faded. Contents toned. Text is unmarked. Slight fading to tinted top edge. Price clipped dust jacket shows some creasing and short closed tears to edges, in a mylar cover. 498pp. Signed by Author.…

Condition: Good. Paperback, small 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original cloth gilt, TEG. Ex-University library with usual markings. First and limited edition; #227 of 450 numbered copies. Small spine break. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 44 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Cloth in DJ. Light foxing to top of text block, else a nice copy. Previous owner's signature.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. 1st Edition. Octavo. Pp. 80. The first issue of a review, with work by ALberto Giacometti (with a drawing) Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanaugh, Frank Auerbach, Stevie Smith, and others. Edited by David Wright and Patrick Swift. Internally fine in printed wrappers. The wrappers show small losses to spine ends, small chips, and faint soil. "David Wright's and Patrick Swift's legendary X set the common agenda for a generation of European painters, writers and dramatists." [The Guardian]. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, in green covers, stamped 'Proof' with Gollancz yellow jacket over covers. A note in red biro on front of classic Gollancz yellow jacket reads 'May 19th Uncorrected proof'. So first edition, first impression before publication and may have belonged to one of the authors. Some edge wear, chipping and a couple of short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bent, dome yellowing to page block, spine and extremities slightly browned, some overall time and fingerprint staining. Not price clipped (63/-, £3.15 Appx), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 356pp, map endpapers. Glasgow, April 1820. The last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic, ended in executions, imprisonments, transportations and 85 trials for high treason. Yet despite its political and social importance, the story of this working class revolution vanished from the historical record. This book restores the radical rising to its rightful place in history, offering an incisive analysis of the rising itself and the events which led up to it, vividly recapturing the extraordinary heroism of its leaders, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, and the savagery with which the movement was crushed by the forces of the British state. Seumas Mac a'Ghobhainn (1930-87), strove for an independent Scottish nation and sought the full restoration of the Gaelic language in Scottish life. Historian, biographer and novelist Peter Berresford Ellis read the eulogy at his memorial service.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pp. 593-792, xii, 8vo, tan wrapper with yapp edges, textblock edges untrimmed. A literary quarterly edited by T. S. Eliot during its entire run from October 1922 until it ceased publication in January 1939 ("Perhaps one of the most influential critical reviews of its day," Miller-Price 45). Includes an essay by Hugh McDiarmid, a poem by Plomer, and also a letter to the editor from Ezra Pound. Also with book reviews by Bonamy Dobrée, Stephen Spender, Sean O'Faolain, John Hayward, Samuel Eliot Morison, T. Sturge Moore, T. S. Eliot, and others. A good copy overall, contents clean other than for a small ink stain on one page; wrapper and first leaf with foxing spots, wrapper age-toned and a bit dust-soiled, its yapp edges frayed as usual, with some short closed tears.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Second impression. An essay on Byron as a Scottish poet. Stapled booklet, covers marked but otherwise clean and sound, good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition for its age but some damage to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. The jacket is bit torn, worn and marked. Small chips on the edges. Spill marks on the jacket. Internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Black cloth gilt. First edition. Ex-library with usual markings. Points lightly bumped. The author's first book of verse. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 58,[4] pages.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Black Cloth, Dust Jacket. Protective Plastic Sleeve. Very Good. 220 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. This 1948 printing (first edition 1940) of Scottish poetry was selected and edited by Hugh McDiarmid, a Scottish poet. This anthology is aimed to present an 'all-in-view' of Scottish poetry and includes works by Robert Burns, William Dunbar and Robert Fergusson, as well as ballads and works in translation. In fair condition for its age; wear on spine and cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 17 poems, first and only edition, Scottish Poetry. vg+, in the publishers quarter black cloth over red cloth boards, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, half title, portrait frontis, [8], 44 pp, t.e.g., an edition limited to 450 numbered copies, marbled endpapers, ink name to fep & ffep (Geraint Edwards). (199*119 mm). RUSSELL George William, 'AE' 1867-1935. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited edition of 450 copies - this is no 10.Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Octavo, beige light card stapled wrapper with black lettering, 8pp, VG- (light soiling & tanning to wrappers, some foxing).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1931. First edition limited to 450 copies, of which this is copy 3 (a large paper edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the author, was also issued). [vi], 44pp. and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge gilt. Hugh McDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928, but left in 1933 due to his Marxist-Leninist views. This collection of seventeen poems also contains an introductory essay by 'AE' (George William Russell) and an author's note. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with a black cloth spine and gold titling on the spine. There is a gold stamped illustration of a rampant unicorn on the bottom corner of the front board. The case of the book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear and slight fading along about 1/2" of the top edge of the front board. Slight lifting to the surface of the front endpaper about the fold. The contents are tight and clean with an inscription dated 1943 on the back of the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip Case Good. 1st Edition. Dedication signed and dated by the author. Unnumbered. Red boards with gold lettering to the front. Gilt to the top of the page edges. Gold lettering to the spine with a very minor bump on the word Lenin. Fits neatly into a red slipcase with minor wear to the extremities. 44pp. Attractive marble end papers and inscribed by the author as "Special" edition this is a beautiful copy with clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request). Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (2 pages), 44 pages, frontispiece portrait plate, very good condition in decorated paper covered boards and morocco spine, top edge gilt, decorated paper end-papers, bottom of spine rubbed, some light spotting on preliminary and concluding pages, number 13 of an edition of 450 copies.…

First Edition. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 220. With a halftone frontispiece of the author by Walter Sickert. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 25s to front flap. Top edge red, grey endpapers. Minor toning to rear jacket panel, gentle edgewear. Near fine. Author of 'Fleet Street Ecologues,' and a major influence upon T.S. Eliot during his formative years, which he states in his reverential preface.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes, complete. First British printing. 8vos. xxii, 734 pp.; viii, 738-1485 pp. Original blue cloth binding. Spinal extremities of both volumes bumped. Cloth on Volume 1 unevenly faded and slightly splotchy. Volume 2 spine is somewhat faded. Price clipped DJs have wear at the spinal extremities. Contents unmarked. Near very good set. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and front. Top edge slightly dust-stained; spine slightly faded. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and front. Top edge slightly dust-stained; spine slightly sunned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Very good in custom binding. Some marks, minor soiling to cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this Limited Edition collection of poems by Hugh McDiarmid. Number two-hundred and ten of four-hundred and fifty copies produced. In the publisher's original slip case.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid published several articles in favour of fascism in the 1920's, but in this collection identified himself as a fervent Communist, with the titular poem praising Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as a modern Messiah.He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland, forerunner to the modern Scottish National Party, and at various points was a supporter of Fascism, Stalinism, and Scottish nationalism.With the bookplate of D.B. Anderson to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper covered slip case. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Handling marks to slip case. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First British printing. 8vo. 358 pp. Original brown cloth binding. Warmly INSCRIBED by MacDiarmid on the front free endpaper to his cousin: "To my cousin | Jean M. White | With affectionate admiration | and best wishes from | Hugh MacDiarmid" Some edge foxing else this is a tight, near fine book in a bright, near fine DJ. Uncommon signed. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 44 pages, frontispiece portrait plate, fine condition in half morocco and decorated paper covered boards, matching decorated paper end-papers, top edge gilt, number 47 of the special large paper edition of 50 signed by the author, contained in rubbed and worn card slipcase. William Soutar's copy with his ownership inscription on a blank preliminary page, dated December 21st 1931. Signed by Author(s).…