Lot 88

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve]

Collection of signed copies

£479

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST

Description

including: Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish Garden. Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original laminated boards, each signed by MacDiarmid and Trevlyn on the front free endpaper;
Cunninghame Graham. A Centenary Study. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 3 inscribed by MacDiarmid (recipients comprising Ian S. Munro, Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, and F. G. Scott), one signed by MacDiarmid and additionally inscribed author of the foreword R. E. Muirhead;
The Uncanny Scott. London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1968. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 40 copies bound in blue buckram and signed by MacDiarmid, together with 2 copies of the trade issue, both signed by MacDiarmid, all with the dust jackets;
Ulysses' Bow. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977. Broadside (22.5 x 14.6cm), signed by MacDiarmid, in original cloth chemise with printed label to front ('This is one of ten copies on Hodgkinson hand-made paper');
Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edinburgh: Colin H. Hamilton, 1963. First edition, one of 35 copies signed by the author and specially bound, from the total edition of 135, 8vo, original cloth, glassine dust jacket;
and 12 others including: Song of the Seraphim, [no date], each one of 100 copies signed by MacDiarmid; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1962, fourth edition, signed by MacDiarmid; Annals of the Five Senses, new edition, 1983, inscribed by Valda Trevlyn; Joseph Chiari, Collected Poems, with a Preface by Hugh MacDiarmid, London: Enitharmon Press, 1978, 2 copies, each one of 30 signed by Chiari, 8vo, original red quarter morocco; and similar (some unsigned)