Lot 242

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

16 works by or honouring MacDiarmid, mostly signed

£2,000

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST

Description

comprising:
Macdiarmid, Hugh. Penny Wheep. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Idem. Three Hymns to Lenin. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd, [n.d.] 8vo, MacDiarmid's signature to front free endpaper, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Idem. The Company I've Kept. London: Hutchison, 1966. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to front free endpaper: "Signed for my friend Norman Peterkin with every high regard. Hugh MacDiarmid 4th March 1967", original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Idem. The Company I've Kept. London: Hutchison, 1966. Uncorrected proof copy, 8vo, inscribed to the half-title: "Inscribed with best wishes for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson "Hugh MacDiarmid" (Christopher Grieve)", original orange wrappers;
Idem. Stony Limits and Scots Unbound. Edinburgh: Castle Wynd, 1956. 12mo, inscribed: "To Michael with love from his father, "Hugh MacDiarmid." Christmas 1956", original card covers, dust-jacket;
Idem. Collected Poems. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. 8vo, inscribed: "Signed with pleasure for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson Hugh MacDiarmid", original blue cloth gilt, glassine jacket torn;
Idem. Direadh I, II and III. Frenich, Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. 4to, number 25 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original red quarter morocco gilt over paper-covered boards, slipcase;
Idem. A Lap of Honour. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1967. First edition, 8vo, signed from George Mackay Brown to Charlie Senior on 5th March 1968, original red paper-covered boards, dust-jacket;
Idem. Scottish Eccentrics. London: George Routledge & sons, Ltd., 1936. 8vo, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid on the title-page, original red cloth gilt;
Idem. The Uncanny Scot. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original cloth, dust-jackets;
Idem. [Four signed pamphlets by MacDiarmid, comprising:] The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Robert Burns, signed to Neil M. Gunn in 1926; When the Rat-Race is Over..., 1962, number 39 of 40 copies; Metaphysics and Poetry, 1975, number 6 of 25 copies; Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1968, number 8 of 350 copies;
Duval, K.D. & Sydney Goodsir Smith, editors. Hugh MacDiarmid, a festschrift. Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962. 8vo, with a signed manuscript poem by MacDiarmid to the limitation verso: "Perfect. I found a pigeon's skull on the machair,/All the bones pure, white, and dry, and chalky,/ But perfect...", one of fifty special signed copies, with a loosely inserted poem by Valda Grieve, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Mackenzie, Compton, and others. Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid... Preston: Akros Publications, 1967. 8vo, signed Hugh MacDiarmid, original quarter morocco gilt over paper-covered boards (16)

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]