Scots Unbound Poems by Macdiarmid Hugh (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First combined edition , so stated. This copy is VG in a VG, unclipped ( 10/6) DJ. Red cloth with gilted tiles to the spine. Exterior is rich and clean with a touch of tip crimping. Inside has PO armorial BP on inside board. Otherwise unmarked, crisp, and firmly bound with minimal/modest even toning. Top page edges are dust dulled. Decorative orange DJ is rich and clean with a modestly toned spine and two open ( 1/4 " and 1/2 " ) triangular tear at top of back. Otherwise minor/modest wear to edges. 156 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus. 8vo. Pp viii, 156. Original cloth. Price-clipped d/w edge-worn with small losses to head & foot of spine. Spine soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First combined edition. 8vo. Pp viii, 156. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w is torn with some small loss to head of spine panel with consequent fading of the cloth beneath.

8vo, pp. viii, 156; thin red cloth boards, grey dustjacket printed in orange with a design by Kujundzic (spine slightly sunned); a fine copy.First edition thus, including some poems that were excluded from the original edition of Stony Limits (1932) over libel fears, and the title-poem only of Scots Unbound (1934), correcting the printers' errors from the first edition. Bridson had reviewed the first edition of Stony Limits in Poetry in 1935.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A very good copy. In a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. The wrapper has two small closed edge tears. Small gift inscription on front free end-paper. Not foxed. This is number 192 of a limited edition of 350 copies and is signed by the author. Pp.[xii],42. Frontispiece. A nice copy of a book which is scarce in this condition. Photographs available on request. Signed by Author(s).

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[12] 42 [2]. Number 127 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with brown titles to spine, and gilt titles to brown cloth over boards, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Cloth lightly soiled with some tape burns corresponding to similar marks on jacket flaps and endpapers. Jacket lightly soiled, with heavy rubbing to spine, some chipping to edges, and a large loss to base of spine, some splits to folds neatly repaired to reverse. Rare in the wrapper. Very good. Largely written in MacDiarmid's famous 'Synthetic Scots' at Thakenham in West Sussex, but published during a short stay at Longniddry in East Lothian, after the sudden relocation of Grieve and his wife Valda following the birth of their son Michael in 1932. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 156 p. 0.0.