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Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine over-jacket. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Very light wear to outer jacket. A fine copy.

Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. Scarce First Edition. Octavo. pp. vi, 150 [1]. With end notes and bibliography. Part of the Studies in English Literature series, no. 14. Near fine.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary tan full calf for Hurstpierpoint College, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and and the College motto stamped in gilt to boards. All edges gilt, and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Prize plate to front pastedown of each volume, dated 1888. Lovely clean copies internally, though rather small print. Toning to spines, with much colour lost from the labels. Light general wear to bindings. Very good.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. [History] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Two Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[ii]; vi; 414; [2]. pp. [6]; 438; [2]. Bound in tan half calf, marbled paper over boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Vol I) previous owner's name in black ink to page 1, spotting to end papers and preliminaries and lightly throughout, wearing to leather some leather peeled away on back corners. Very good. Vol II) previous owner's name in black ink to page 1, spotting to end papers and very lightly sporadically throughout, wearing to leather, one piece of leather peeled away and repaired on front board. Very good. Macaulay was a British historian and politician. He served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841. These are two attractive volumes of his essays.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1877. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary black full morocco for King's College London, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, and a large gilt college crest to upper of each volume. All edges gilt; yellow-coated endpapers. Prize plate to front pastedown of volume I, dated 1879. Spotting to endpapers and preliminaries. Black ink ownership to first blank of volume II. Some wear to binding extremities, carefully re-coloured. Very good.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. [Politics/History] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 784 [2]. Tan half calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Brown label with gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges matching boards. Lightly toned internally with infrequent spotting, heavier spotting to preliminaries and rear blanks. Bookplate to front flyleaf, minor glue tears on-top. Upper board sunned to top, light discolouration around boards. Minor edgewear. Very good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15), pp.[12]; 200. Bound in recent burgundy half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen double sided half tone plates. Original cartographic endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in a smart modern binding.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy showing some toning the spine of the price-clipped jacket. Near fine.

London: George Johnson, the Magic Wand Office, 1934. [Magic] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.20. With in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue soft covers, stapled twice and priced at 2/6. Black ink ownership of E. Brenton Jennings to title page. Light wear to covers. Very good. From the library of American deaf and mute sleight-of-hand magician, E. Brenton Jennings (1888-1953).

Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. [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).

London: Victor Gollancz, 1934. [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.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Scott, | with love | from | Mr. & Mrs. "Hugh MacDiarmid," | Whalsay | Shetland Islands | March 1936.' Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the dust-jacket titled in red and priced at 15s. Some spotting to edges; more lightly to endpapers. Spine a little toned, with some light handling to cloth. Jacket toned with some light spotting; more heavily browned to spine. Light rubbing to edges with a few closed tears. A lovely copy overall, near fine. 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. This copy has been personally inscribed by the author to Francis… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Edges toned, with a tobacco scent. Jacket faded to grey, with some toning to spine, and just a little light wear to edges. A lovely crisp, clean copy. 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.

London: Stanley Nott, no date [1934]. [Literary and Political Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A little toned, with a light tobacco scent. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, with a large chip from the centre of the front cover. A nice crisp, clean copy generally. Near fine. A collection of essays reprinted from various periodicals, explaining MacDiarmid's attitude to English poetry, his creation of Synthetic Scots, and his National Socialist politics.

Skelmorlie: The Drumalban Press, 1964. [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.'.

Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. [Poetry] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[5] 22 [1]. SIGNED by both MacDiarmid and his wife Valda, one in blue, the other in black ink to flyleaf. With three illustrations by Lorgan, including a frontispiece, and a photograph of Christopher and Valda together. Also with a printed poem with a hand-written note tipped onto contents page marking MacDiarmid's funeral: 'To Sylvia, | to commemorate | the great day of sadness | Longholm. 13th September 1978 | from Craig.' Publisher's plain white card wraps, stapled twice, with the dust-jacket, priced at £1.00 nett. A fine copy. A reissue of 'Cornish Heroic Song,' and the first full publication of 'Once in a Cornish Garden,' both written in the early 1930's soon after MacDiarmid met his Cornish second wife in London. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [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.

Hemel Hempstead: Duncan Glen, 1962. [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.

Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [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.

Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [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.