The Puddocks by Douglas Young (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Softback. A very good copy. 63 pages. A play translated into Scots from the Greek of Aristophanes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards, title in gilt. Boards bright with negligible wear. Inscribed by author on title page, otherwise text clean and bright. Jacket a little faded on the spine/extremities, otherwise clean. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. xii, 78pp, title-page vignette. Original red cloth gilt, slightly chipped and lightly soiled d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Fine handsome book in clean fresh red buckram covers with gilt titles to front.Internally near fine and free of inscriptions; SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR, Douglas Young, to the flyleaf; no foxing; binding tight; 78pp. The dust jacket is very good and not price clippedbut rather dusty. Signed and Dedicated By the Au.

Makarsbield, Fife, 1958. 2nd ed. with glossary and additional notes. Cloth. Small personal library mark, name as well as author?s dedication on free endpaper. 'I have enjoyed it enormously. It is the most brilliant and amusing achievement. The Lallans is so delightfully classical a language (I had not known this before) that it catches the neatness and sharpness of the Greek as our new Chicago or Minneapolis versions completely fail to do. I am so glad also that you have allowed metre to have its way. It is really needed, and without it, or with only adumbrations of it, one wonders where one is. The songs are most enjoyable ? lively and, as Gilbert Murray used to say, ?irresistibly songful.? Rhyme is a great help with this kind of song ? and you have used it with delightful effect.' (SIR MAURICE BOWRA). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.