Macdiarmid Hugh Pseudonym Grieve Christopher (44 results)

Condition: FINE. First thus. An accessible new edition of a poem described as the greatest long poem in Scottish literature when it was originally published in the mid 1920s. Includes a new preface, marginal gloss in English for those who have no Scots, and Weston's explanatory notes and background information. A handsome production, bound in lavender cloth boards with cream cloth spine, slightly oversized square format. xiv, 122 pp. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine and the corners).

Octavo, boards. First edition. A selection of MacDiarmid's prose pieces written between 1923 and 1962; short stories, playlets, essays and criticism, a number of which are in vernacular Scots. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some curl and short tears along bottom edges. (#116404).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated [24]. Publisher's blue card wraps printed in black, printed price of 70p to rear. Lightly handled. Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, SIGNED, Limited Edition, no. 19 of 50 copies printed, oblong 8vo, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2." No date, c. 1961. White paper wrappers with staple binding. Black lettering on front. No lettering to spine. Covers have minuscule edge wear, a slight wrinkle in lower-right corner of fore-edge, and a small faint stain on front, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have a small wrinkle in lower-right corner, else clean and intact. Signed in blue ink by author Hugh MacDiarmid on inside of back cover. Colophon printed on inside of back cover with number in black ink: "This edition is limited to 50 copies; Copy No, 19." 19 pp. A lecture about David Hume (1711-1776), a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. Lecture by Christopher Grieve (1892-1978), a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist, and political figure who played a significant role in the Scottish Renaissance. Grieve wrote under the pen name, Hugh MacDiarmid. Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 12. Publisher's printed card wraps designed by Allan Donaldson, stapled. Printed price of 4/- net to inner cover. Slight crease to top of the spine. Fine.

LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.[2]; 13; [1]. Publisher's card wraps, sewn, lettered in grey. Number of 86 of just 350 copies printed. Internally fine, some bruising and small tears to edges of the covers. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.15; [1]. Publisher's glossy card wraps, stapled. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 42; [2]. Publisher's blue textured card wraps printed in black to upper. Lightly handled. Fine.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spotting to edges and margins. Light browning throughout, and some light handling to cloth. Very good. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.40. Publisher's green cloth, titles in gilt to upper. Dust-jacket with printed price of 5/- net to front flap. Undated but 1952. Offset toning to endpapers, some toning and spotting to edges. Dust-jacket toned and marked, some chipping to extremities. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), unpaginated [64]. Publisher's printed card wraps, sewn. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Lightly handled. Fine.

[Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxxiii [1] 461 [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £25 to front flap. Internally pristine but for a few light pencil annotations and an ownership signature in blue ink to front flyleaf. Some mild spotting to pastedowns. Mould stains to cloth and reverse of jacket. A few marks to jacket panels, spine sunned. Minor edgewear. Bookmark loosely inserted. Very good. One of MacDiarmid's important critical works about the nature and progression of Scottish literature, specifically poetry. 'Contemporary Scottish Studies' was first published in The Scottish Educational Journal in the mid 1920s.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 107 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Quite heavy wear to top edge of covers; light handling otherwise. Very good. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939).

[Political Poetry] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket spine toned and chipped; front cover also toned. Very good. Three related poems written between 1930 and 1955, collected here for the first time.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.69 [3]. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt monogram decoration to upper. Top edge red. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket a little sunned to spine, with some light wear to edges. Near fine. A republication of various poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (17 x 22cm), pp.19; [5]. Publisher's printed wraps designed by Peter McGinn, with printed price of three shillings to upper, stapled twice. Signed by the author to the title page. Lightly handled. Fine. A transcript of a lecture given at Edinburgh University, a signed limited edition of fifty copies was also issued. Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL POSTER. A3 format (42 x 30cm). Single sheet printed in red and black. Single fold leaving some surface disruption otherwise pretty much pristine. Fine.

[Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of Scotch characters: Lord George Gordon; Sir Thomas Urquhart; William McGonagall; James Hogg; Prof. John Wilson; William Berry; Thomas Davidson; Elspeth Buchan; James Burnett; James Macpherson; William Lauder; and David Hume.

[Political Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 14cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue and black to upper. Light handling. A fine copy, almost as-new. MacDiarmid explores the contradictions between the necessity of class struggle, and the subconscious goal of the proletariat itself to become bourgeoisie.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 1cm), pp.[5]; 22; [1]. The less common hardback issue with the dust-jacket laminated to boards. Illustrated. Signed by the author and his wife and fellow poet Valda Trevlyn to flyleaf. Some dustiness to edges, light wear to the extremities of the binding, a few marks to covers. Very good. Signed by Author.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge brown, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A lightly sunned strip to top edge on rear cover of jacket, and some spotting to edges. Near fine. A mishmash of poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962), as well as some new material. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 166 of 350 copies thus, also SIGNED by the author in blue ink to first blank. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Some rubbing and handling to covers, with a little toning to edges. Near fine. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Plain card wraps with a beige cloth spine. Signed by Hugh MacDiarmid to title page. Profusely illustrated. Likely a proof copy from the plain binding, the book was issue in a trade and a deluxe limited edition hardback. Lightly marked and handled to covers and edges. Very good.

[Political Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Professor Knight | with the compliments | of the author | Hugh MacDiarmid. | 23/6/60'. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Spotting and toning to jacket, with a couple of small chips. Light spotting also to endpapers. Near fine. Three related poems written between 1930 and 1955, collected here for the first time.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with just a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (25s net to the lower front flap). Signed by Hugh MacDiarmid in blue ink on the front endpaper. This collection was published to coincide with the poet's seventy-fifth birthday. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Edges toned, with a tobacco scent. Jacket faded to grey, with some toning to spine, and just a little light wear to edges. A lovely crisp, clean copy. Near fine. MacDiarmid's first 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), introduced with a highly complementary preface by John Buchan.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles to yellow paper label on spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s to spine. Cloth chipped to head of spine. Jacket stained and soiled, with large losses to head of spine, chips and closed tears to edges, and recent tape repairs to split upper fold. Very good. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 90 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket moderately rubbed and chipped to edges, with heavy toning to spine. Very good. MacDiarmid's second 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926).

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine, with light chipping and closed tears to top edge and two minor tape burns to rear cover. Very good. A long poem originally written on Shetland immediately after Joyce's death in 1941. Its publication was prevented for nearly fifteen years, first by the death of publisher Jack Kahane, and subsequently by the wartime shortages of paper and increased costs of printing and binding. A number of other long poems are printed here as well, building on MacDiarmid's aim to break away from English parochialism and tap into the World Soul of literature, which he associated so much with the work of Joyce. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

FIRST EDITION. Offprint broadside (29 x 23cm), single sheet issued as an offprint in the November 1963 issue of Forward Scotland. Some marking to righthand margin and one small closed tear to same. Uncommon. Near fine.