Lot 168

Orkney - Brown, George Mackay - "The Orcadian"




Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
7 autograph essays entitled Under Brinkies Brae, contributed by George Mackay Brown, to The Orcadian, mostly 2pp., dated between 8 September 1977 and 21 April 1983; 6 autograph book reviews, including of Vagaland (T.a. Robertson) and Ernest Marwick's The folklore of Orkney and Shetland, (most 3 - 5pp.), 3 autograph obituaries (Ernest Marwick, 3pp.; Charles Senior, 3pp.; Orkney fishermen James Pratt and Greig Pirie, 1pp.), 3pp. review of St. Magnus Festival, The Bridie who he ?, c.1980; 2 autograph poems: [Christmas], 1pp, signed, undated & Old Man of Hoy, 1pp., signed, undated; Rendall, Robert Two typescript poems: Winter Sadness, 1pp., 1963; Daily Edition, 1pp., undated; Muir, Edwin A.L.S. to Gerald G.A. Meyer, editor of The Orcadian, 5 July 1949 (quantity)



