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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, 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: 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: 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).

London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers. Light browning to preliminaries. Rubbed cloth extensively and rather roughly re-coloured. A bump to the centre of the spine, with some loss of gilt. Very good. After publishing several articles in favour of Italian-style Fascism in the 1920's, Grieve here emerges as a fervent Communist in this collection, with the title poem praising Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as a modern Messiah. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some toning to jacket spine and just a few small chips. 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.

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.

Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.28. Number 93 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's green card covers, sewn, with green fly-leaves, and a green card prospectus / order form loose to preliminaries, marked as paid with thanks by the publisher Duncan Glenn. Light handling. A fine copy.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1926. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 108. Including an extensive Glossary. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, light blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to spine. Jacket toned to grey, and heavily rubbed to spine. A number of chips and closed tears to edges. Very good. Probably MacDiarmid's best known collection, and one the most significant modernist poems of the early twentieth century, sitting comfortably alongside Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (1922). 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: Covent Garden Press in conjunction with INCA Books, no date [1973]. [Political Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 14cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue and black to upper. Light handling. A fine copy, almost as-new. MacDiarmid explores the contradictions between the necessity of class struggle, and the subconscious goal of the proletariat itself to become bourgeoisie.

Glasgow: William MacLellan, no date [1947]. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spotting to edges and margins. Light browning throughout, and some light handling to cloth. 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.

Glasgow: the Akros Press, 1965. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[6]. Number 2 of just 35 copies thus. Publisher's orange card throughout, sewn. A fine copy. First printed in 'First Hymn to Lenin' (1931).

London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.69 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt monogram decoration to upper, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Jacket sunned to spine with a little light handling to edges. Near fine. A republication of various poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 166 of 350 copies thus, also SIGNED by the author in blue ink to first blank. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Some rubbing and handling to covers, with a little toning to edges. Near fine. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Preston: Akros Publications, 1966. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 12cm), pp.[16]. On delicate paper, with three colour illustrations. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Publisher's plain white card covers, stapled. Paper toned, with some light handling to covers. Near fine. A poem first published in 'The Modern Scot' (January 1933).