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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later. Good plus Book rubbed along edges and on cover. Former owner's name written inside. Rubbed and torn along the edges.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Francis Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Global Migrations | The Scottish Diaspora since 1600 | Angela McCarthy (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Download | Englisch | 2017 | Edinburgh University Press | EAN 9781474429320 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of the first postwar Scottish verse anthology, signed by Scottish literary figure Hugh MacDiarmid. The signed first edition of Northern Numbers: Being Representative Selections From Certain Living Scottish Poets, the first postwar Scottish anthology, amalgamated and signed by Scottish poet and literary figure Charles Murray Grieve, popular known as Hugh MacDiarmid. Published in 1920 by T.N. Fouls.In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with blue paper boards. MacDiarmid's signed inscription is to the blank before half-title, dated to 1962.This particularly early work is one of the first written by Charles Murray Grieve, before he ever used the pen name Hugh MacDiarmid. A recent First World War veteran and a journalist at the time, MacDiarmid would become a key figure in Scottish poetry, writing in a 'Synthetic Scots' which fused many local dialects.In this anthology, he wishes to bring to light the excellent work of contemporary Scottish poets, with all the contributors, including Neil Munro, John Ferguson and Violet Jacobs, being personal friends. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with blue paper boards. Externally, very smart, with minimal marks and shelf wear. Very minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and very slight rubbing to the joints. A couple of small marks on the back board. End papers are bright and clean, with the very faint odd spot to paste downs. Internally, firmly bound, with very slight wear between leaves pp.128-129. Pages are bright and clean, with slight browning towards the hinge of central leaves. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Goss, G.W.; Hiley, F.E.; Gillett,Frank; Skelton, J.R.; Briault, S.; Prater, Ernest; De Walton, John; Dewar,W.; Carruthers, G.P.; Carruthers, G.P.; Eyles, D.C.; Holloway, Cyril;Goss, G.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, August (Aug.) 1925, Vol. LV No. 328 - Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano / Two Years in Borneo Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man'.