C M Grieve (100 results)

PAPERBACK BLUE. Full Title Page: A Modern Herbal, The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi Shrubs and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses In Two Volumes, Vol. II General wear, creased cover corner, vertical creases running down spine, contains BW illus…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 161pp. (white spine) 8vo. sized. 1983 reprint. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. Black boards - silver embossed to the spine and black endpapers. No inscriptions. A light bump to the head of the spine. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. [1931]. 32pp string bound pamphlet of poems edited by Christopher Murray Grieve aka Hugh MacDiarmid with s 3 page introduction. From Ernest Benn's "Augustan Books of Poetry" series. Verse by Lewis Spence, Alexander Gray, Marion Angus, Helen Cruickshank, Edwin Muir and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4" x 6-3/8", 95pp incl. prelims + 18pp publisher's advertising. Printed in acidic paper and bound in signatures in brown paper-covered boards with printed title plate applied to front panel. Binding is split the length of the book along the front spine fold. Otherwise, moderate reading / sh…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. British edition, first printing, 1983. First thus. Originally published in 1923 with a second edition published in 1930. With original unclipped jacket (£6.50). Introduction by Alan Bold. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a couple of small (ap…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid-20th century. This book is a follow-up to the collection published a year earlier and collects poems by 19 contemporary poets, including Grieve…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid-20th century. The book collects poems by 11 contemporary poets, viz., John Buchan, Violet Jacob, Neil Munro, Will Ogilvie, TS Cairncross, CM Gri…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG- first edition of what later became known as the first series of this anthology of Scots poetry. Light grey paper-covered boards with black lettering and thistle device. Blue cloth spine with gold lettering. Outer and lower edges untrimmed. Corners bumped and rubbed and…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Described by the editor (C.M. Grieve/ Hugh MacDiarmid) as "rather an experiment in group publication than an anthology." Contributors…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid-20th century. The book collects poems by 11 contemporary poets, viz., John Buchan, Violet Jacob, Neil Munro, Will Ogilvie, TS Cairncross, C…