Lot 243

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Collection of pamphlets by or relating to Hugh MacDiarmid, all signed or inscribed by the author

£350

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST

Description

comprising:
Trevlyn, Valda (wife of Hugh MacDiarmid). Two Poems. [Verona]: printed for Valda, G[iovanni] M[ardersteig], [Officina Bodoni], 1970. First edition, one of 15 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, 5 pp., inscribed by Trevlyn on the title-page 'For Christopher, with all my love, Valda, 25/11/70', presumably to her husband Christopher Murray Grieve (i.e. Hugh MacDiarmid);
MacDiarmid, Hugh. Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid recently discovered among Letters to his Schoolmaster and Friend George Ogilvie. Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. First edition, one of 50 copies signed by author and editor from the total edition of 300, 8vo, original, wrappers;
Idem. Second Hymn to Lenin. Thakeham: Valda Trevlyn, c.1932. 2 copies, first editions, one being one 100 copies signed by the author and additionally inscribed 'To my good friend Neil M. Gunn [...]' and with laid-in autograph letter signed ('Chris'), the other out-of-series and inscribed by the author 'To Barbara Niven, with gratitude and all comradely feelings [...], 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. Five Bits of Miller. London: for the author, 1934. First edition, one of 40 copies signed by the author, this copy additionally inscribed 'To my friend G. S. Whithorn from Hugh MacDiarmid, London, June 1934', 4to, original wrappers;
Idem. The MacDiarmids. A Conversation. Hugh MacDiarmid and Duncan Glen. Recorded at Brownsbank ... 1968. [Preston]: Akros, 1970. 2 copies, first editions, each one of 55 copies signed by MacDiarmid and Glen, 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. A Political Speech. Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. the ugly birds without wings. Edinburgh: Allan Donaldson, 1962. 2 copies, 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. David Hume. Scotland's Greatest Son. Edinburgh: The Paperback, 1961. Oblong 8vo, original wrappers;
Idem. Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933. Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1963. 4to, original wrappers;
Glen, Duncan. The Literary Masks of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: Drumalban Press, 1964. First edition, one of 55 copies signed and hand-illustrated by the author, 4to, original wrappers;
and 12 others including 2 more by Trevlyn (High Death, Falkland: K D Duval, 1970, one of 100 copies only, single sheet of blue hand-made paper folded twice, inscribed 'For William & Mary, Valda Trevlyn'; A Sea-Girl's Cry, 1971, one of 100 copies, signed), and various studies of MacDiarmid (30)

Footnote

Note: Three copies of Two Poems traced in libraries world-wide, all in the USA.