Cencrastus (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'The magazine for Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs'. Some wear to edges, mostly along lower edge of front cover; otherwise wear is restricted to colour loss due to rubbing of emerald green cover. Good condition.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. 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. Supplied without title page or cover. 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.

Paperback. Condition: Good. cover worn.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Stapled soft cover. 29.5x21cm. 49 pages. Clean & tight & flat. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H6. CENCRASTUS magazine. Number 4. Winter 1980-1881. Scottish & International Literature, Arts & Affairs. Includes: William Donaldson - Inside the Kist of Glendulochan: Thoughts on Political Fiction.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled soft cover. 29.5x21cm. 49 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 851.3. CENCRASTUS magazine. Number 3. Summer 1980. Scottish & International Literature, Arts & Affairs. Includes: James Kelman 4 Fictions.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled soft cover. 29.5x21cm. 48 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H6. CENCRASTUS magazine. Number 2. Spring 1980. Scottish & International Literature, Arts & Affairs. Includes: - Nietzche and the Drunk Man by Walter Perrie.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Stapled soft cover. 29.5x21cm. 40 pages. Clean & tight & flat. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 672/26. CENCRASTUS. Number 1. Autumn 1979. Scottish & International Literature, Arts & Affairs. Includes: Interview with Margaret Atwood. John Wayne: Man & Myth of the West by Jenni Calder.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled soft cover. 29.5x21cm. 48 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H6. CENCRASTUS magazine. Number 11. NEW YEAR 1983. Scottish & International Literature, Arts & Affairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Blue buckram binding with bright gilt decoration & lettering to the front, spine. Moderately foxed the the extremities, otherwise a very good, sound, unmarked copy of the first edition.

1stEdition. Near fine cloth copy in an edge dulled and back panel torn dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains surprisingly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Uncommon. ; 206 pages; Description: 206 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 --Scottich poetry. 3 Kg.

8vo, [viii], 206pp, orig. cloth gilt. A VG+ copy. Contains a signed and dated signature of the Author on a piece of card.

First Edition. Second binding of blue cloth with black lettering. VG in VG- dustjacket which is browned to the spine and edges.

1stEdition. Near fine cloth copy in an edge dulled and back panel torn dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains surprisingly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Uncommon. ; 206 pages; Description: 206 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 --Scottich poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good, owner name on board and small sticker; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First printing, primary binding in navy cloth w/ gilt lettering. 206 pp. Foxed endpapers, lightly mottled else very good, in heavily foxed, but complete dust jacket with only light edgewear.

Hardback. 206pp William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & Londnon, 1930. 1st edition. Slight mark on front cover, else VG without dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [viii], 206, [2]. Original blue boards, spine lettered in black, cream dustjacket printed in blue. Boards a touch soiled, jacket unevenly darkened, a little worn to edges with small hole to spine panel. MacDiarmid?s 4th collection, in the second issue binding.

First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 206. Primary binding of dark blue buckram over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt.Contemporary (1931) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Endpaper faintly tanned. Near fine in very good nicked, spotted and marked dustwrapper with a closed 3 cm tear at front fold.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition in second issue binding of this collection of poetry by Hugh M'Diarmid, inscribed and signed by the author. The first edition of this work, in the second issue light blue cloth binding. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.Gift inscription from the author, signed to front free endpaper 'Hugh MacDiarmid' and dated December 1943.Collection of poems by Christopher Murray Grieve published under pen name Hugh M'Diarmid. A provocative anthology attacking the self-satisfied and complacent in modern thought and literature using vivid imagery of its lyric interludes.Hugh MacDiarmid was a Scottish poet, journalist and essayist known as one of the principal forces behind theScottish Renaissance, highly influential on Scottish culture and politics. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped with some loss to wraps and spine, spotting to wraps, lightly darkened to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge affecting only first and last few leaves, pages otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Dust Jacket Condition: 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, priced at 8/6 to spine. Quite heavy spotting and toning to edges. Light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries. Heavy toning and some spotting to jacket, with rubbing and chipping to edges, and split along some folds. Very good. Intended to be complimentary to 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), this long linked cycle of poems is named in response to a letter sent to the author by Prof. Lascelles Abercrombie remarking "You have a serpent in you which will eat up everything else.". Signed.