Lot 144

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, Christopher Murray]

18 volumes, including 17 signed or presentation copies, comprising

£1,500

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST

Description

Annals of the Five Senses. 1923, presentation copy to M.M., 1924, original cloth; Sangschaw. 1925, presentation copy to William Will, and A.L.S. inserted, dustwrapper; Penny Wheep. 1926, presentation copy to Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, dustwrapper; Contemporary Scottish Studies. 1926, presentation copy to Alasdair Steven, black calf gilt; Alybn or Scotland and the Future. 1927, presentation copy for Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, dustwrapper; The Birlinn of Clanranald. St. Andrews, 1935. 4to, number 66 of 100 copies signed by the author, original patterned boards, uncut; A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle. 1953, presentation copy to David Young, dustwrapper; The Battle Continues. 1957, signed by the author on endpaper, dustwrapper; Stony Limits and Scots Unbound. 1956, presentation copy to James Dunlop, dustwrapper; Burns Today and Tomorrow. 1959, number 9 of 25 copies signed by the author, original quarter vellum; Collected Poems. 1962, signed by the author, dustwrapper; A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle. 1962, presentation copy to Norman Peterkin, dustwrapper; Poet at Play and other Poems. 1965, presentation copy to Duncan Glen, original wrappers; "Arthur Leslie" The Politics and Poetry of Hugh Macdiarmid. Caledonian Press, [1952], signed by MacDiarmid as "Arthur Leslie", original wrappers; The Company I've Kept. 1966, presentation copy to Barbara [Niven] and Ernest, dustwrapper; Early Lyrics. 1968, number 19 of 50 copies signed by the author, original wrappers; The Uncanny Scott. 1968, signed by the author on endpaper, dustwrapper; Glen, Duncan, editor. Poems Addressed to Hugh Macdiarmid. 1967. 4to, number 87 of 350 copies, signed by the editor, original morocco-backed boards, slightly rubbed (18)