Lot 79
Brown, George Mackay - A collection of Scottish and Irish Poetry and Literature
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Muir, Edwin Edwin Muir Selected Prose. London: John Murray, 1987. Uncorrected proof copy on A4 sheets; Crichton Smith, Iain From Bourgeois Land. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. First edition, 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] Selected Poems. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] The Last Summer. Glasgow: Richard Drew, 1986. 8vo, paperback, inscribed by the author; Heaney, Seamus Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First edition, 8vodust-jacket, gift inscription not from the author; [Idem] Hailstones. Dublin: Galley Books, 1984. 8vo, inscribed by the author to George Mackay Brown, original blue wrappers; [Idem] From the Republic of Conscience. Dublin: Amnesty International, 1985. 8vo, signed and inscribed from the author to George Mackay Brown; 'MacDiarmid, Hugh' [Christopher Murray Grieve] Hugh MacDiarmid, a festschrift. Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962. 8vo, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown, dust-jacket slightly worn; [Idem] Selected Lyrics. Verona: Officina Bodoni, August 1977. 8vo, out-of-series copy, original quarter vellum, bookplate of George Mackay Brown; Conn, Stewart Thunder in the Air. Preston: Akros Publications, 1967. 8vo, inscribed to George Mackay Brown, original wrappers, a little soiling; and 84 others (94)
Footnote
Provenance: From the family of Brian Murray, Literary Executor to George Mackay Brown