pseudonym grieve christopher murray (29 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: FINE. First thus. An accessible new edition of a poem described as the greatest long poem in Scottish literature when it was originally published in the mid 1920s. Includes a new preface, marginal gloss in English for those who have no Scots, and Weston's explanatory notes and background information. A handsome production, bound in lavender cloth boards with cream cloth spine, slightly oversized square format. xiv, 122 pp. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine and the corners).

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spotting to edges and margins. Light browning throughout, and some light handling to cloth. Very good. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxxiii [1] 461 [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £25 to front flap. Internally pristine but for a few light pencil annotations and an ownership signature in blue ink to front flyleaf. Some mild spotting to pastedowns. Mould stains to cloth and reverse of jacket. A few marks to jacket panels, spine sunned. Minor edgewear. Bookmark loosely inserted. Very good. One of MacDiarmid's important critical works about the nature and progression of Scottish literature, specifically poetry. 'Contemporary Scottish Studies' was first published in The Scottish Educational Journal in the mid 1920s.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 107 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Quite heavy wear to top edge of covers; light handling otherwise. Very good. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939).

[Political Poetry] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Jacket spine toned and chipped; front cover also toned. Very good. Three related poems written between 1930 and 1955, collected here for the first time.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.69 [3]. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt monogram decoration to upper. Top edge red. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket a little sunned to spine, with some light wear to edges. Near fine. A republication of various poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962).

[Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of Scotch characters: Lord George Gordon; Sir Thomas Urquhart; William McGonagall; James Hogg; Prof. John Wilson; William Berry; Thomas Davidson; Elspeth Buchan; James Burnett; James Macpherson; William Lauder; and David Hume.

[Political Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 14cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue and black to upper. Light handling. A fine copy, almost as-new. MacDiarmid explores the contradictions between the necessity of class struggle, and the subconscious goal of the proletariat itself to become bourgeoisie.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge brown, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A lightly sunned strip to top edge on rear cover of jacket, and some spotting to edges. Near fine. A mishmash of poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962), as well as some new material. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 166 of 350 copies thus, also SIGNED by the author in blue ink to first blank. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Some rubbing and handling to covers, with a little toning to edges. Near fine. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Political Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Professor Knight | with the compliments | of the author | Hugh MacDiarmid. | 23/6/60'. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Spotting and toning to jacket, with a couple of small chips. Light spotting also to endpapers. Near fine. Three related poems written between 1930 and 1955, collected here for the first time.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with just a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (25s net to the lower front flap). Signed by Hugh MacDiarmid in blue ink on the front endpaper. This collection was published to coincide with the poet's seventy-fifth birthday. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles to yellow paper label on spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s to spine. Cloth chipped to head of spine. Jacket stained and soiled, with large losses to head of spine, chips and closed tears to edges, and recent tape repairs to split upper fold. Very good. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 90 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket moderately rubbed and chipped to edges, with heavy toning to spine. Very good. MacDiarmid's second 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926).

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine, with light chipping and closed tears to top edge and two minor tape burns to rear cover. Very good. A long poem originally written on Shetland immediately after Joyce's death in 1941. Its publication was prevented for nearly fifteen years, first by the death of publisher Jack Kahane, and subsequently by the wartime shortages of paper and increased costs of printing and binding. A number of other long poems are printed here as well, building on MacDiarmid's aim to break away from English parochialism and tap into the World Soul of literature, which he associated so much with the work of Joyce. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.[2] 52 [4]. Number 22 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, and printed in Dante type on Magnani paper. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and grey paper over boards, fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the grey paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. A series of poems expressing the poet's 'endeavour to "see Scotland whole."'.

[Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 206 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Harold Edwards | with ever regard | from | Hugh MacDiarmid. | London. | June 1934.' Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the cream dust-jacket, priced at 8/6 to spine. Quite heavy spotting and toning to edges. Light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries. Heavy toning and some spotting to jacket, with rubbing and chipping to edges, and split along some folds. Very good. Intended to be complimentary to 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), this long linked cycle of poems is named in response to a letter sent to the author by Prof. Lascelles Abercrombie remarking "You have a serpent in you which will eat up everything else.".

[Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some toning to jacket spine and just a few small chips. Near fine. MacDiarmid's first 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), introduced with a highly complementary preface by John Buchan.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers. Light browning to preliminaries. Rubbed cloth extensively and rather roughly re-coloured. A bump to the centre of the spine, with some loss of gilt. Very good. After publishing several articles in favour of Italian-style Fascism in the 1920's, Grieve here emerges as a fervent Communist in this collection, with the title poem praising Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as a modern Messiah. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.143 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | S.G. Whitehorn | from | C.M. Grieve | ("Hugh MacDiarmid"), | London | June 1934.' Publisher's cream cloth with titles to yellow paper label on spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s to spine. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with just a touch of spotting to edges and jacket. Some toning and light handling also to jacket. Near fine.

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[12] 42 [2]. Number 127 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with brown titles to spine, and gilt titles to brown cloth over boards, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Cloth lightly soiled with some tape burns corresponding to similar marks on jacket flaps and endpapers. Jacket lightly soiled, with heavy rubbing to spine, some chipping to edges, and a large loss to base of spine, some splits to folds neatly repaired to reverse. Rare in the wrapper. Very good. Largely written in MacDiarmid's famous 'Synthetic Scots' at Thakenham in West Sussex, but published during a short stay at Longniddry in East Lothian, after the sudden relocation of Grieve and his wife Valda following the birth of their son Michael in 1932. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 108. Including an extensive Glossary. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, light blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to spine. Jacket toned to grey, and heavily rubbed to spine. A number of chips and closed tears to edges. Very good. Probably MacDiarmid's best known collection, and one the most significant modernist poems of the early twentieth century, sitting comfortably alongside Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (1922). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xl; 106 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's pictorial softcovers priced at £2.95 to inside of front cover. Internally bright and clean, one section toned due to cheaper paper stock. Gentle toning and edgewear to covers. Near fine. MacDiarmid was one of the leading figures in the Scottish Socialist movement of the 20th century, which lead to many artists and great thinkers producing work that exhibited their views.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[6]. Number 2 of just 35 copies thus. Publisher's orange card throughout, sewn. A fine copy. First printed in 'First Hymn to Lenin' (1931).

[Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, the publisher's copy. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 5 [5]. Number 26 of 150 copies thus, printed in 'Monotype' Bembo. Publisher's yellow card covers, sewn. Black ink ownership of the publisher, Duncan Glen, to fly-leaf. Light handling, with a hint of toning to spine. Near fine.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 12cm), pp.[16]. On delicate paper, with three colour illustrations. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Publisher's plain white card covers, stapled. Paper toned, with some light handling to covers. Near fine. A poem first published in 'The Modern Scot' (January 1933).

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.28. Number 93 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's green card covers, sewn, with green fly-leaves, and a green card prospectus / order form loose to preliminaries, marked as paid with thanks by the publisher Duncan Glenn. Light handling. A fine copy.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 18cm), pp.[8]. An out-of-series copy from a numbered edition of just 55. Publisher's blue card covers, with black card fly-leaves, sewn. Light handling to covers, with a little toning to extremities. Near fine. A pair of poems first published in 'The Poetry Review.'.