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Essays in honour of Hector MacIver, in a collection edited by Karl Miller, including two contributions from Hugh MacDiarmid, with other contributors including George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Sorley Maclean, Tom Nairn and William MacIlvanney. Fine in good price-clipped dustjacket with one tear at top of left front dustjacket and some fade and rubbing to spine. Scarce.

Very good used copy. With an ink inscription on front end paper. Blue cloth boards and unclipped illustrated dust jacket.

A FINE COPY OF THIS SELECTION OF THE LETTERS OF EDWIN MUIR, EDITED BY P.H. BUTTER. BLACK AND WHITE FRONTISPIECE HEAD AND SHOULDERS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SCOTS POET. VERY ATTRACTIVE NON-PRICE CLIPPED MYLAR-PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPER WITH NO FADE ON SPINE.

Very good with a good price unclipped dustwrapper. Edited with a six page Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid. 1952 for The Saltire Classics series.

Published by the Covent Garden Press. First edition, signed by the poet. Blue cloth, front board lettered in black, dustjacket printed in blue and black. A fine copy, signed by MacDiarmid in ink to flyleaf.

Condition: Near Fine unread. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; first Printing. 345 pp. A lovely copy in gilt-decorated covers in the Alasdair Gray designed price unclipped dustjacket.

Fine, with unclipped dustwrapper, from Duncan Glen's own library with his black ink signature dated '3rd December 1983' at top of front endpaper. Anthology of twelve independent Scotland essays e.g."Scotland: Full Circle" from Hugh MacDiarmid, "Gaelic Scotland" by Derick S.Thomson,"Politics" by Norman Buchan,"Resurrection" by Anthony Ross, Cordelia Oliver, "The Visual Arts" and "Literature" by Alexander Scott.

Spine slightly stained; a good copy in worn, soiled, and slightly chipped turquoise boards. Edges rough cut, some foxing internally.

A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1962. A very good book in a good first issue price-clipped wrapper with the photograph of Lessing to the rear panel. Tears to the top of the spine and front and foot of front cover. The text inside front and back of dust wapper has been partially removed due to adhesive tape damage. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt.

Near fine/very good indeed. In the original unclipped dust wrapper and Including a preface by John Buchan. The first edition of this work, in the second state binding of lighter blue cloth. Unclipped dust wrapper is near fine, with only a slight water mark stain to foot of spine and minimally to right lower edge of rear dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1926. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 108. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. A touch of spotting, a few leaves very lightly age-browned. Spine-ends rubbed, corners just a little worn, spine gilt dulled. The first edition of MacDiarmid's most celebrated work, in the first-issue binding of dark blue cloth with sharp bright gilt title and author name (in the original form of M'Diarmid) on front cover with the decorative gilt motif in between. A very good copy with some foxing but with tight boards and pages.