£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Northern Numbers. Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, [1920]. First edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, with several poems by MacDiarmid; Annals of the Five Senses. Montrose: C.M. Grieve, 1923. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed 'C.M. Grieve' to H.J.C. Grierson, original cloth; Sangschaw. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Penny Wheep. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket a little worn; To Circumjack Cencrastus... Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1930. First edition, 8vo, inscribed and signed from the author to Harold Edwards, original cloth, some wear to dust-jacket; Stony Limits. London: Victor Gollancz, 1934. First edition, 8vo, inscribed "To S.G. Whitehorn from C.M. Grieve ("Hugh MacDiarmid"), London, June. 1934", original cloth, dust-jacket; Scottish Eccentrics. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1936. 8vo, inscribed by the author: "To Mr and Mrs F.G. Scott with love from Mr and Mrs "Hugh MacDiarmid", original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Scotland; and the Question of a Popular Front against Fascism and War. Dunfermline: The Hugh MacDiarmid Book Club, [n.d.] 4pp. pamphlet, signed Hugh MacDiarmid and Christopher Murray Grieve along the top; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd, 1956. Third edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed by MacDiarmid, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped; The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original wrappers; Three Hymns to Lenin. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers Limited [n.d.] 8vo, signed and inscribed by Hugh MacDiarmid, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Print depicting Loveday's 1968 illustration of Hugh MacDiarmid and the poem 'Separatism', one of 150 copies signed by Hugh MacDiarmid; A Political Speech. Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 8vo, number 9 of 50 signed copies; Direadh I, II, and III. Frenich: Kulgin Duval and Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. 4to, number 22 of 200 signed copies, original red quarter morocco gilt, slipcase; Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish Garden. Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. 8vo, signed Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda Trevlyn, original boards; Weston, John C. Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Preston: Akros, 1970. 8vo, original blue wrappers, with loosely inserted ALS from MacDiarmid addressed to Alistair Stevens, dated 20-07-70; Glen, Duncan A Small Press and Hugh MacDiarmid. Preston: Akros, 1970. 4to, one of 300 copies, original wrappers (17)