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First impression of the true first edition. Edited with a six-page introduction by Duncan Glen [Ronald Eadie Munro]. ***Near fine in pale marble-effect grey boards with gilt titles to spine. Grey front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Owner's name to top of front free endpaper. Pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***89 pages plus adverts to rear. 250mm x 152 mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Duncan Glen; Hugh MacDiarmid (b. 1892): By Wauchopeside (The Fire of the Spirit, 1964), A Change of Weather (Akros 3); Flora Garry (b. 1900): Village Magdalen (Akros 3); J. K. Annand (b.1908): Twa Bairn Rhymes (Akrors 1): Colliers, Hollow Holly Tree, Mountain Pule (Akros 3); George Bruce (b. 1909): Landscapes and Figures (Landscapes and Figures, 1967); Robert Garioch (b. 1909): At Robert Fergusson's Grave (Akros 1); John Kincaid (b.1909): The Backend o Politics (Akros 6), A Makar's Tale (Akros 6); T. S. Law (b. 1910): The Wurld We Tyne (Akros 12), Bawbee She Kyles (Akros 10), The Hero (Akros 6); Norman MacCaig (b. 1910): Absorbed (Akros 1), Realist (Akros 1), Hugh MacDiarmid (Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, 1967), Eyelahses of a Swan (Akros 11); Sydney Goodsir Smith (b. 1915): Winds, Three, Late, Seal Poem, I Saw the Mune, "Tak Aff Your Dram", Winter, The Kenless Strand (Akros 10); Maurice Lindsay (b. 1918): Stones in Sky and Water (Akros 2), In the Cheviots (This Business of Living, 1969), Solway Fishermen (Akros 2), A Slant on Tangier (This Business of Living, 1969); Tom Scott (b. 1918): Cursus Mundi (Akros 3), Pseudo-Classical, No-stalgie for Ben Dorain, In Defence o the Razor-Boys (Akros 10); Edwin Morgan (b. 1920): Glasgow Green (Akros 4), Itenerary (Akros 8), Strawberry Fields Forever (Gnomes, 1968), Friendly Village (Akros 12); Alexander Scott (b. 1920): Heart of Stone (Cantrips, 1968), To Mourn Jayne Mansfield: i. Sair Sonnet (Akros 6 an Cantrips, 1968) ii. Hollywood in Hades, (Cantrips, 1968), Paradise Tint, Doun wi dirt (Cantrips, 1968); Alastair Mackie (b. 1925): Still Life: Cezanne (Akros 3), Broken Jougs, Drappit, In Absentia, New Moon, Adolescence, Literature Paper, Binary Sets, Pieta (Akros 11); Eric Gold (b. 1927): Empedocles in Princes Street (Akros 6), The Stars an the Aixe, Scottish Spearman Afore Flodden (Akros 10); Iain Chrichton Smith (b. 1928): For Ann in America in the Autumn (Akros 4), Iona (Akros 5); John Manson (b. 1932): I didna ken ye (Akros 6); Duncan Glen (b. 1933) ("Ronald Eadie Munro"): Relatives, Progress, The Machine, Wee Boxes, Words, What's the Gemm? (Akros 15); George Hardie (b. 1933): Twa Men Fell (Akros 8); Stewart Conn (b. 1936): Summer Farm, Under Greag Mhor (Thunder in the Air, 1967); Alan Jackson (b. 1938): Notice (Akros 8), Labour (Akros 7), The Fight (Akros 5); Stephen Mulrine (b. 1938): The Coming of the Wee Malkies (Poems by Four Glasgow University Poets, 1967), Nostalgie (Akros 15); James Rankin (b. 1939): Grandpa (Poems, 1969); Donald Campbell (b. 1940): A Weel-Timmed Gless (Akros 15); J. Laughton Johnston (b. 1940): Fishermen (Akros 5), Willie's Shetland-Boat (Akros 7); D. M. Black (b. 1941): Performer (Akros 8); David Morrison (b. 1941): Lik The Thistle (Akros 6); Alan Bold (b. 1943): From Edinburgh Castle (Akros 1); Roderick Watson (b. 1943): 3 Stones (Akros 12). ***First impression of the true first edition, printed on quality Abbey Mills cream antique laid paper. Of interest to academics and collectors of 20th Century Scottish poetry. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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