Lot 241
£375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
comprising:
Sangschaw. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, front free-endpaper signed "Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth gilt;
Idem. Penny Wheep. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Alex McGill, hoping he'll never in actual virtuous practice have to descend to anything so mild as "penny wheep" C.M. Grieve ("Hugh McDiarmid").", original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Idem. To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & sons Ltd., 1930. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Gordon Bottomley, in admiration and affection. C.M. Grieve, Liverpool, December 1930", original blue cloth gilt;
Idem. The Islands of Scotland... London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1939. First edition, 8vo, inscribed: "For my friend A.A.S. Keir with every high regard. Hugh MacDiarmid, Aberdeen. Oct. 1963", original purple cloth;
Idem. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Edinburgh, 1962. Fourth edition, 8vo, inscribed: "To Finlay J. MacDonald with every high regard from Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth, dust-jacket;
Idem. The Fire of the Spirit, two poems. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 8vo, 'extra' copy of 350 signed copies, original wrappers;
Idem. On a Raised Beach: a poem. Preston: The Harris Press, 1967. Oblong 4to, signed by MacDiarmid, original wrappers;
Idem. Direadh I, II and III. Frenich: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. 4to, number 200 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original red quarter morocco, slipcase;
Idem. Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: William Maclellan, [n.d.] 8vo, inscribed: "To Helen with love from Hugh MacDiarmid. June.1945." original quarter cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Idem. Lap of Honour. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967. 8vo, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid to the front free-endpaper, original paper-covered boards, dust jacket;
Idem. Contemporary Scottish Studies. Edinburgh: The Scottish Educational Journal, [n.d.] 4to, signed to the front free-endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket;
Idem. Complete Poems. London: Martin Brian & O'Keefe, [1978.] 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, signed, slipcase;
Wright, Gordon. MacDiarmid, an illustrated biography... Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, [1977]. 4to, original wrappers, signed;
and 10 photographs of Hugh MacDiarmid (24)