Search Results: Titles starting with G from Boreas Books

'Gambit' was the magazine of the Edinburgh University Review of Spring 1959. George Mackay Brown is credited as Editorial Staff along with Jane Hannay. Brown also contributes an article titled 'Edwin Muir'.Other contributors are Ian H Finlay, Robin Fulton, Norman MacCaig, Alan Jackson, Ian Macarthur, Meta H MacBain, Tom Scott and Edward Durham Taylor. 30 pages.

This edition of Gowdspink in Reekie has been limited to 600 copies of which numbers 1 to 100 have been signed by the author. This is No. 493 thus not signed. Olive green dust jacket with illustration by Geoffrey Roper with toning to edges and small rectangular trace mark. Book in fine, clean and tight condition. 24 pages.

The Grassy Stories by Margaret Tait is a collection of nine stories for chidren whose characters are presented as grasses and other flora found in the fields of Orkney. Margaret Tait was a pioneering filmmaker and now considered a leading figure in Britain's avant-garde film world of the 1950s and 60s. The book is in near perfect condition with only a very small tear to the top of the spine. The book is one of the 100 numbered copies featuring a hand-finished water colour painting by the author. This is a rare book in superb collector condition. Please see photographs to view the outstanding condition of this book.

A very good, square, tight copy. Some spotting to page edges. Minor chipping to dust jacket extremities. Neat previous owner inscription. A very nice copy of this uncommon title.

A book of poems surrounding the death of the poet's husband. Griefmania is a translation of Kathryn Starbuck's maiden name from the Greek and Turkish. The meaning of her name is the subject of her poetry; this book also provides us with an exquisite, brief prose memoir. Starbuck's art portrays the madness of intense grief. A clean, tight paperback with no inscriptions.