Annand Editor (11 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good softcover, book is clean and tight.

Staple Bound Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Miller, Walter (illustrator). Presumed First Edition. 1959. 32pp. Poems and critical articles by leading Scottish writers, including David Daiches on The Scottish Tradition in Literature and other articles, as well as illustrated frontispiece. Hugh MacDiarmid, George MacKay Brown, Norman MacCaig, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan. Slim staple-bound paperback in very good condition with a little sunning to top edge and light wear to covers; staples rusted.

1st edition. 8vo. 336pp. B/w. illustrations, 2 maps. Original boards. Pictorial orange d/w. lettered in black, slightly rubbed. US$12.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Paul Wilks / Marvin Cohen / A E Dudley / Edwin Brock and Carol Annand / D L Carr / Vernon Scannell / Oswell Blakeston / Patrick Hughes / Henry Graham / Glyn Hughes / Gavin Ewart.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Carol Annand; Peter Blake (illustrator). 1st Edition. 44pp + 4pp thin card covers. The thirteenth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories together with drawings by Carol Annand and Peter Blake (who has also produced the cover illustration). This issue contains fifteen poems. White and black covers. Staple bound. Dusty rear cover edges. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is now printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Laid in is an unused subscription form.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Carol Annand; Heinke Jenkins (illustrator). 1st Edition. 52pp + 4pp card covers. The twenty-fifth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories and Reviews. This issue contains twenty-five poems. Includes an article by Nathaniel Tarn on the Prague Poetry Scene. Blue titling on black and white covers. Staple bound. Shelf wear to top of spine and also to fore edge of rear cover. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Carol Annand; Mke Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 44pp + 4pp thin card covers. The eighteenth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories together with drawings by Carol Annand and Mike Foreman (who has also produced the cover illustration). This issue contains twenty-nine poems. Blue, white and black covers. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to top of spine. Scuff mark to rear cover spine area. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.

96pp. 8vo. Original decorated boards, faded backstrip, in worn dustwrapper. Black and white and colour plates. Minor foxing to preliminary pages. Ink inscription on ffep. A very good copy. First edition.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. UNCOMMON COPY - SEE BELOW : Not only is it a Limited Edition it is numbered 64. The actual number of copies amounted to 350. However, please note that only the first 50 numbered were originally signed by the Author and Editor at that time. This copy has, I believe, a far rarer association and signature combination. Additionally, I have come across many of MacDiarmid's Signed works, but never where he has Signed himself as just "Chris". Further, the dedication includes Valda his second wife. The recipients were: - Ernest Brooks and Barbara Niven. Ern Brooks was a talented painter and illustrator, and an enthusiastic worker for the British Labour movement. A graphic artist who followed the major developments in European painting, changing his style, but had little affinity with the extremes of Pop Art, heartily concurring with his lifelong partner, Barbara Niven, also a painter. Brooks and Niven were lifelong members of the Communist Party and in the Thirties had helped found the Manchester Theatre Union, child of Joan Littlewood and the folk singer Ewan McColl. Every month for over two decades Niven wrung money out of supporters for the Daily Worker Fighting Fund. Both were members of the informally organised Communist Party's Artist Group, which brought together a diverse band of people engaged in the visual arts. Ern Brooks and Barbara Niven were typical products of the British Labour movement and in their turn contributed their human warmth and rich talents to its development, all part of our history. Correspondence between the Author and Barbara and Ern are held at the National Library in Scotland (Acc.12074). Very good copy, light rubs at extremities, one very small mark base to upper cover. Internally fine, with the dedication: To Barbara and Ern With Love from Valda and Chris. 28 pages ; 22 cm. So, as you can see, we have a dedication to friends of a like mind as his own, and he has used his natural and Christian name of "Chris", which I believe to be a rare occurrence. This signing will have taken place sometime after publication. Let me highlight some factors about the Author, that I believe endorses the view I hold about this copy. Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 - 9 September 1978), was best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid. His father was a postman and the family lived above the town library, so, from childhood, Grieve had unrestricted access to books. This encouraged an interest in reading and in language that would remain with him throughout his life. He is credited with effecting a Scottish literary revolution which restored an indigenous Scots literature and he has been acknowledged as the greatest poet that his country has produced since Robert Burns. [ DTM ]. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. [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.