Pseudonym Christopher Grieve (41 results)

First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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), a…

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, so…

dj. First Edition. [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 s…

[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 th…

dj. First Edition. [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…

dj. [Scottish Poetry] BIRTHDAY EDITION, the FOURTH EDITION overall. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 116. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the light blue typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Internally crisp and clean, with some lig…

dj. First Edition. [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, wi…

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 Univ…

First Edition. [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 Go…

dj. First Edition. [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 t…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 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…

dj. First Edition. [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 '…

[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…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.252. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edge red. Dust-jacket designed by Mike Self, with printed price of 38s net / £1.90 net to front flap. Frontispiece portrait by Rosalie M. J. Loveday…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 marke…

dj. First Edition. [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…

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 witho…

dj. First Edition. [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, an…

dj. First Edition. [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,…

dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 206 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Harold Edwards | with ever regard | from | Hugh MacDiarmid. | London. | June 1934.' Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the cream dust-jacket, price…

dj. First Edition. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some toning to jacket spine and just a few small chips. Near fine. Ma…