Simpson Kenneth Editors (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 2001. x, 544pp. Slight crack to the spine. Sunning to the spine. The book is otherwise in very good condition with no inscriptions. "If George Bruce's fine poem describes St Andrews rather than Glasgow, and if the latter is no longer a 'small town', the image which provides the title for this volume nevertheless captures very well the spirit which infused the 1993 International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance), the seventh of its kind, the proceedings of which are published here. Jointly organised by the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, the conference had as its central focus the cultural relations between Scotland and its European neighbours, a fitting theme in a city which had recently been honoured with the title 'European City of Culture'. If the sun did not always shine in a literal sense, an awareness of the close historical links between Scotland and the rest of Europe, including England, remained at the centre of the participants' concerns, and the high quality of many of the papers will be apparent to the reader of this volume.".

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.78. Publisher's plain card wraps with integral dust-jacket with printed price of one shilling net to upper. Signed by the editor and contributor Gertrude Ford to the half title. Annotation to title page and to some poem titles. Dust-jacket a little worn to spine with some loss at the ends and the titles mostly faded, some marking and toning. Near fine. A scarce collection of patriotic verse, later expanded and republished in 1917, only eight copies listed as held by British institutions and not traced by Reilly. Contains Poems by Binyon and Plowman amongst others. Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War 63 p.20. Signed by Author.