Lot 119

"Hugh MacDiarmid" [Christopher Murray Grieve]

13 volumes by MacDiarmid, 8 signed, comprising

£813

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: Day One: 24 February 2021 | From 10:00

Description

Northern Numbers, First - Third Series. 1920-1921-1922, original wrappers, upper wrapper of Third Series detached; The Islands of Scotland. 1939, dustwrapper; Cunninghame Graham. 1952, presentation copy to Barbara Niven, dustwrapper slightly frayed; In Memorial James Joyce. Glasgow, 1956. 2nd impression, 4to, presentation copy to R.M. Blythman from the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; A Drunk Man looks at a Thistle. 1962. Fourth edition, presentation copy to Thurso Berwick from the author, dustwrapper; Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edinburgh, 1963, number 128 of 135 copies, presentation copy to Willie Johnstone from the author, original wrappers, spine slightly discoloured; Poet at Play and Other Poems. Privately Printed, 1965, number 41 of 55 copies, original yellow wrappers; The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 8vo, limited to 350 copies, "extra" copy, signed by the author, original wrappers; On a Raised Beach. Preston: Harris Press, 1967. 4to, number 11 of 200 copies, presentation copy to Iain Watson from the author, original black wrappers; A Political Speech. Edinburgh, 1972, signed copy, original wrappers; The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse 1966, signed by MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Hamish Henderson, Sydney Goodsir Smith & others, original cloth, dustwrapper; Trevlyn, Valda High Death. Falkland: Duval, 1970, limited to 100 copies, presentation copy to Edward & IaNairnrn from the author, original wrappers; Trevlyn, Valda Why ?. West Linton Castlelaw Press, 1978, number 33 of 100 copies, presentation copy from the author, original wrappers; Trevlyn, Valda A Sea-girl's Cry. Akrosos. number 71 of 100 copies, signed by the author, original wrappers slightly discoloured (16)