Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Collection of inscribed copies and limited editions
£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
Omens. Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1955. 3 copies, first editions, numbers 2, 9 and 33 of 300, the first inscribed to Smith by his wife Hazel together with 10 bars of manuscript music in her hand, the others inscribed by Smith for Hazel, both 8vo, original wrappers;
Orpheus and Eurydice. Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1955. First edition, the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 50 copies signed by author and artist and with hand-coloured frontispiece, from the total edition of 300, this copy additionally inscribed 'Sydney, I love thee for ever, Hazel, April 1955', 8vo, original wrappers;
Carotid Cornucopius. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1947. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, each inscribed by the author ('The Auk'), one for Peter Russell, the other for Tommy Thin;
The Deevil's Waltz. Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1946. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author 'To Cedric Thorpe Davie [Scottish composer, 1913-1983], avec mes sentiments les plus profonds [...]';
Figs and Thistles. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. 2 copies, first editions, signed limited issue (one of 100 copies) and trade issue, the latter inscribed by the author and with laid-in autograph letter signed, both to 'Mrs Brown', identified in pencilled note as mother of George MacKay Brown;
together with 7 others by Smith (Carotid Cornucopius, 1964; Kynd Kittock's Land, 1965, 3 copies; The Wanderer, 1943; Gowdspink in Reekie, 1974; Gavin Douglas: A Selection from his Poetry, 1959; Skail Wind, 1941), all signed or inscribed except for Skail Wind, Smith's personal copy of Rilke, Selected Poems,1941 (with his ownership inscription), and 10 by other Scottish poets including William Soutar, some inscribed (29)