Lot 90
Brown, George Mackay: 56 works, including 20 signed or inscribed by the author
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A Voyage of Saint Brandon. [N.p., n.d.] Uncorrected radio script, inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown, dated Stromness 7/8/90; [Idem] Loaves and Fishes. London: Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, signed; [Idem] Poems, New and Selected. London: the Hogarth Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to John Broom, signed; [Idem] Greenvoe. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First American edition, 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] The Hooded Fisherman. Kulgin D. Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1985. 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza on the final leaf; [Idem] Christmas Stories. Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1985. 4to, signed to final leaf, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] In the Margins of a Shakespeare. Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1991. Oblong 4to, proof copy? with various annotated remarks and suggestions; [Idem] - Bryce Wilson - Keith Allardyce Sea Haven. Kirkwall: the Orkney Press, 1991. 4to, signed by George Mackay Brown and inscribed to Brian Murray within a manuscript poem to the title-page; [Idem] Brodgar Poems... Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1992. 4to, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray; and a collection of others (55)
Footnote
Provenance: From the family of Brian Murray, Literary Executor to George Mackay Brown