Crombie Saunders (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Collected Poems This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1951). 1951 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Pp118. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 9s. 6d. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. ".a sound book on the most neglected, the cheapest and the best fishing waters in Great Britain." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. with 118 PAGES, well illustrated, SPINE FADED AND SLIGHTLY DUST STAINED O/W VERY GOOD condition .HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, EXCELLENT VALUE. SERIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE FISHING INNS OF SCOTLAND IN THE 1950'S.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1951). 1951 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Pp118. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 9s. 6d (? Price clipped from dust-wrapper). Initials to front end-paper map. Good plus in frayed and price-clipped dust-wrapper. ".a sound book on the most neglected, the cheapest and the best fishing waters in Great Britain." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1951). Odd copy - Vol. 2, No. 10. August 1951. 8vo magazine. (140 x 218mm). Slightly used - good. "Published every second month." Good articles on trout, salmon and sea fishing. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1950). Odd copy - Vol. I, No. 11. January-February 1950. 8vo magazine. (140 x 218mm). Slightly used and frayed. Good. "Published every second month." Good articles on trout, salmon and sea fishing. .

Condition: Good. 1951. No Edition Stated. 118 pages. Photographic jacket over cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1951). 1951 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Pp118. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 9s. 6d. Some foxing but good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. ".a sound book on the most neglected, the cheapest and the best fishing waters in Great Britain." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. A very good copy in a chipped dustwrapper. 59pp. Frontispiece portrait. A selection of the best of Macdiarmid's early poems.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Corners are very slightly bumped. ; Book is in excellent condition. The Introduction states that "this selection is a personal one, and the aim has been to present what appears to the editor to be the cream of [the poet's] poetry while exemplifying the varied nature of his work." ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 59 pages.…

Condition: Good. 1955. No edition remarks. 31 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Rough cut edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Mild water staining to front panel.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. **THIS IS THE SOFTCOVER PRINTING** 52 pp., softcover, light wear and chipping to cover edges and spine else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. William Maclellan. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. Pen name Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 9 September 1978). A Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', a literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed. However, Grieve's earliest work -- such as Annals of the Five Senses was written in English, and from the early 1930s onwards much of the poetry published under MacDiarmid's name was written in an English that was supplemented to varying degrees by scientific and technical vocabularies. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 107 pages.…

HB. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; couple tiny chips/closed tears/creases at edge. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; overall clean & tight copy. 31 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Twenty-one poems mainly in Scots. Original covers sunned, yapp edges worn, no inscriptions, good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: VG with fade and a small smudge to spine. 24 pages. A bright copy.

Red Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 1947. First edition. 74pp., 2 pages of advertisements, and colour and black and white illustrations, both on plates and within the text. Scottish Art and Letters was a journal dealing with all aspects of Scottish culture and criticism, and ran from 1944 to 1950. This third issue contains articles by William Montgomerie, Joseph MacLeod, and others. There are short stories by Fred Urquhart and Balfour Brown, and poetry by several Scottish poets. The book is bound in the original brick-red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and top corners and some very faint patches of damp fading on the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and bumping and nicks to the spine ends and corners. Small pieces are missing from the bottom of the spine. There is a 1" hole in the rear spine edge with some surrounding small tears that have been repaired on the reverse with tape.…

Hardback. Condition: G++. No DW. 1st Edition. White paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT covers are noticeably dust marked. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped /frayed.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 1955. 31pp. Inscribed and signed by author on FFEP: "To Robin and Sybille, with all good wishes. Crombie Saunders." This is addressed to Robin Alexander, minor 60s Edinburgh poet, and his wife. Slim green cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine. Endpapers and edges slightly browned, very light wear to corners but overall very good. Dust jacket unclipped in protective plastic cover and good to very good with light edge wear, small stain to front, spine a little sunned and small loss (~5mm) to top of spine. Inscribed and Signed by Author. …

51;62(2) Pp. Illustrations both issues. Art director is J.D. Fergusson. Adverts. Decorations by Donald Bain. Number One is worn & chipped along spine, Number two the cloth is faded Number 1 is paper wraps; number 2 is blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Edited with an Introduction by Duncan Glen. Drawings by Leonard Penrice. Small quarto. Quarter calf and decorated papercovered boards. Moderate rubbing on the spine, else about near fine. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by Glen and Penrice.…

First edition, first printing. Very good pamphlet in faded card covers with a tear to the rear cover.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1948-1949. 6 issues. Pp 64, 64, 64, 64, 64, 62. B/w photographs, illustrations. Colour wrappers bound in at rear. Publisher's stone-coloured cloth. 12/6d. Slight marks to cloth but a very good copy. The first six issues of this octavo (5 1/2"x 8 1/2") magazine, bound in stone-coloured cloth with the front-covers bound in at the rear. The first three issues were published by Stage and Screen Press, Ltd, Glasgow. Thereafter by Scottish Angler Publications from the same address. From Vol 2 No. 9 (July 1951) Scottish Angler Publications moved to an Edinburgh address. Throughout this time editorial material was dealt with from the editor's address at Tom-na-Voil, Lochearnhead, Perthshire. The editor was R. Crombie Saunders. . …

First Edition. Corners slightly worn, otherwise a very nice copy in fragmentary remains of dust-wrapper.

Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY HELEN B. CRIUICKSHANK. Slim 8vo, pp. 59, (1) + b/w frontis portrait. Quarter blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white paper boards. Gentle wear and pushing to spine ends and corners, boards gently soiled. Toned, inscribed in blue pen to ffep: "With best wishes from Helen./ July 6 1946," pencil notes underneath and to front pastedown identify the inscription as that of Helen B. Cruickshank. Else, clean and tight. A pleasing association copy, inscribed by Grieve's close friend and fellow poet and player in the Scottish Renaissance. Very good Includes a Glossary to rear. The selection, through which Saunders Crombie aimed to present "the cream of Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry while exemplifying the varied nature of his work," includes one poem that first appeared in The Modern Scot, 'Harry Semen' (see ref. 2444) Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886-1975) was another Angus-born poet with links to the Scottish Renaissance (see also item 5). Having submitted poems to Christopher Grieve's new anthology, Northern Numbers, the two poets became lifelong friends, as well working together for Scottish PEN; Cruickshank began as Honorary Secretary, but later took over the helm from Grieve. Indeed, Cruickshank's Edinburgh home, Dinnieduff, became a centre of Scottish literary activity and society during this period, which Cruickshank later referred to as a watershed time in her life. She was also a founding member of the Saltire Society.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition. Preface by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Drawings by Leonard Penrice. Quarto. 67pp. Gilt-stamped red leather spine with green papercovered boards with red illustration on the front. Leather spine modestly dry and worn, near fine. This is number 57 of 350 copies Signed by both Glen and Penrice on the limitation page.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1951). 1948-1951. 18 issues in 3 cloth-bound volumes. B/w photographs, illustrations. Colour wrappers bound in at rear. Publisher's stone-coloured cloth. Three very good volumes, with the bookplate of angling book collector John McKinley. One volume has a neat hand-written index on end-papers. The first 18 issues of this octavo (5 1/2"x 8 1/2") magazine, bound in stone-coloured cloth with the front-covers bound in at the rear. The first three issues were published by Stage and Screen Press, Ltd, Glasgow. Thereafter by Scottish Angler Publications from the same address. From Vol 2 No. 9 (July 1951) Scottish Angler Publications moved to an Edinburgh address. Throughout this time editorial material was dealt with from the editor's address at Tom-na-Voil, Lochearnhead, Perthshire. The editor was R. Crombie Saunders. .…