Search Results: Poetry from Boreas Books

A very good, near fine, clean, bright, tight copy. Signed by author.

A very good, clean, bright, tight copy with no inscriptions.

Beautifully bound special edition of selected poems by German poet, Karl Krolow presented alongside with English translations by Kevin Perryman. These selected poems were published by Babel on the occasion of Krolow's 70th birthday. The translations were authorized by Karl Krolow and are printed here for the first time. Celebrated along with Krolow's work are signed poems by Gunter Grass, George Mackay Brown, Walter Helmut Fritz, and Gunter Kunert. A limited edition of just 30 copies. A very scarce copy,

A very good, near fine, clean, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

Purple card covers with text pages stapled in. 10 pages. Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.

Red cloth covers with bold design to front cover in black ink. Some shelf wear to extremities and some sun fading to spine. 199 pages. Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.

A very, very good, near fine, clean, bright, tight copy with no inscriptions. Near fine dust jacket.

'CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS: The first 4 fitts making "One Quart" by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens of Crankmirligo.' Blue paper-covered boards with title printed in black. Presentation copy from the author with eight line handwritten inscriptions by Sydney Goodsir Smith on front endpaper. This is the 1947 first edition with a limited run of just 300 copies. Frontispiece illustrated with print of an auk. 80 pages. Sydney Goodsir Smith was a poet, critic and journalist who is best remembered for his contribution to the 20th century revival of poetry in the Scots language. Discolouration around edges of cover and some wear to extremities. A scarce title from a truly eccentric writer.

A very good, near fine, clean, bright, tight copy. Signed by author.

Yellow card covers with title and illustration in red. Nine poems by Sydney Goodsir Smith and printed in a limited edition of 220 of which this is number 210. A very good, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

A very good, clean, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

A very good, clean, tight, copy with no inscriptions. Dust jacket unclipped.

Collection of poems by renowned Orcadian poet, conchologist and historian. His other books include, amongst others, 'Orkney Variants', 'Shore Poems', 'The Hidden Land', and 'The Orkney Shore'. 48 pages. Some minor dust soiling. Please see photographs for further information on condition.

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A nice copy of this title by extraordinary and eccentric Sydney Goodsir Smith of whom Hugh MacDiarmid said 'he did for Edinburgh something very similar to what James Joyce achieved for Dublin'. Book in very good, tight condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket with small piece missing from bottom front and chipping to top front edge. 60 pages. Dust jacket unclipped and showing original price of six shillings. Several full page illustrations by Denis Peploe. No. 7 of the Poetry Scotland Series.

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"Edwin Muir" The W D Thomas Memorial Lecture of 1960 delivered at University College Swansea. Grey card covers with sewn in pages. 26 pages. Some shelf wear to wrapper edges and marks to cover. Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.

Special, luxury limited first edition of Figs and Thistles by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edition limited to just one hundred copies. Signed by the author. An excellent, fine condition copy of this rare edition. Separate folded paper 'Word Leet' glossary of dialect words inserted as published. Half leather binding with blue cloth covers. Issued without dust jacket.

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Published by Babel, Scondorf am Ammersee, Germany in an edition of 300 copies, of which 50 are numbered and signed by the author, This is number 22. To express his gratitude to the medical staff at Foresterhill, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he was a patient in 1990, he composed a set of poems imagining a medieval monastic beginning for Foresterhill. An excellent copy in outstanding, clean, bright, tight and fine condition.