Glen Duncan Edited Introduction (4 results)

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 252pp frontisplate of author A Near FINE/FINE Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Edited with a six-page introduction by Duncan Glen [Ronald Eadie Munro]. ***Near fine in pale marble-effect grey boards with gilt titles to spine. Grey front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Owner's name to top of front free endpaper. Pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***89 pages plus adverts to rear. 250mm x 152 mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Duncan Glen; Hugh MacDiarmid (b. 1892): By Wauchopeside (The Fire of the Spirit, 1964), A Change of Weather (Akros 3); Flora Garry (b. 1900): Village Magdalen (Akros 3); J. K. Annand (b.1908): Twa Bairn Rhymes (Akrors 1): Colliers, Hollow Holly Tree, Mountain Pule (Akros 3); George Bruce (b. 1909): Landscapes and Figures (Landscapes and Figures, 1967); Robert Garioch (b. 1909): At Robert Fergusson's Grave (Akros 1); John Kincaid (b.1909): The Backend o Politics (Akros 6), A Makar's Tale (Akros 6); T. S. Law (b. 1910): The Wurld We Tyne (Akros 12), Bawbee She Kyles (Akros 10), The Hero (Akros 6); Norman MacCaig (b. 1910): Absorbed (Akros 1), Realist (Akros 1), Hugh MacDiarmid (Poems Addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, 1967), Eyelahses of a Swan (Akros 11); Sydney Goodsir Smith (b. 1915): Winds, Three, Late, Seal Poem, I Saw the Mune, "Tak Aff Your Dram", Winter, The Kenless Strand (Akros 10); Maurice Lindsay (b. 1918): Stones in Sky and Water (Akros 2), In the Cheviots (This Business of Living, 1969), Solway Fishermen (Akros 2), A Slant on Tangier (This Business of Living, 1969); Tom Scott (b. 1918): Cursus Mundi (Akros 3), Pseudo-Classical, No-stalgie for Ben Dorain, In Defence o the Razor-Boys (Akros 10); Edwin Morgan (b. 1920): Glasgow Green (Akros 4), Itenerary (Akros 8), Strawberry Fields Forever (Gnomes, 1968), Friendly Village (Akros 12); Alexander Scott (b. 1920): Heart of Stone (Cantrips, 1968), To Mourn Jayne Mansfield: i. Sair Sonnet (Akros 6 an Cantrips, 1968) ii. Hollywood in Hades, (Cantrips, 1968), Paradise Tint, Doun wi dirt (Cantrips, 1968); Alastair Mackie (b. 1925): Still Life: Cezanne (Akros 3), Broken Jougs, Drappit, In Absentia, New Moon, Adolescence, Literature Paper, Binary Sets, Pieta (Akros 11); Eric Gold (b. 1927): Empedocles in Princes Street (Akros 6), The Stars an the Aixe, Scottish Spearman Afore Flodden (Akros 10); Iain Chrichton Smith (b. 1928): For Ann in America in the Autumn (Akros 4), Iona (Akros 5); John Manson (b. 1932): I didna ken ye (Akros 6); Duncan Glen (b. 1933) ("Ronald Eadie Munro"): Relatives, Progress, The Machine, Wee Boxes, Words, What's the Gemm? (Akros 15); George Hardie (b. 1933): Twa Men Fell (Akros 8); Stewart Conn (b. 1936): Summer Farm, Under Greag Mhor (Thunder in the Air, 1967); Alan Jackson (b. 1938): Notice (Akros 8), Labour (Akros 7), The Fight (Akros 5); Stephen Mulrine (b. 1938): The Coming of the Wee Malkies (Poems by Four Glasgow University Poets, 1967), Nostalgie (Akros 15); James Rankin (b. 1939): Grandpa (Poems, 1969); Donald Campbell (b. 1940): A Weel-Timmed Gless (Akros 15); J. Laughton Johnston (b. 1940): Fishermen (Akros 5), Willie's Shetland-Boat (Akros 7); D. M. Black (b. 1941): Performer (Akros 8); David Morrison (b. 1941): Lik The Thistle (Akros 6); Alan Bold (b. 1943): From Edinburgh Castle (Akros 1); Roderick Watson (b. 1943): 3 Stones (Akros 12). ***First impression of the true first edition, printed on quality Abbey Mills cream antique laid paper. Of interest to academics and collectors of 20th Century Scottish poetry. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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.

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Leonard Penrice (illustrator). First. Quarter leather with printed heavy card sides. Printed on high quality paper. Signed by the editor and the artist. Limited numbered copy 292/350. Poems by John M Bett, George Bruce, Llillias Scott Chisholm, Helen Burness Cruikshank, G.S.Fraser, Giles Gordon, Hamish Henderson, T.S.Law, Maurice Lindsay, Norman Maccaig, A.D.Mackie, Alastair Mackie, Edwin Morgan, Ronald Munro, Alan Riddell, R. Crombie Saunders, Alexander Scott, Ian Cricton Smith, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Nathaniel Tarn, Gael Turnbull. The pages are very clean and firm. Illustrated. Size: 101/2ins x 81/2ins. By the editor and the artist. Book.