Grieve Christopher Murray (67 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 - 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (/mÉkËdÉËrmÉŞd/), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxistâ"Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He would subsequently stand as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and British Communist Party (1964) -- Wikipedia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, in DJ and plastic cover. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Pages are crisp, shows shockingly little wear for a library book.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. First edition. Very good condition in slightly edge-worn dust jacket. ]. 288p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small octavo. B&W photographs. Condition: DJ price-clipped with slight nicking to edges; else fine in near fine DJ. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 8vo 8' - 9' tall used hardcover in a dust jacket. the jacket is somewhat worn about the edges and slightly scuffed, has only small tears at extremeties. disc./ foxing to edges of page block. corners slightly bumped, but pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Near Fine. 1st ed. thus. brown hardback, 1st ed. thus (new author's note 1972), xxvi + 436 pages in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Lightly bumped corners; text clean / unmarked. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. 436pp. Slight shelf wear, several small black ink dots to bottom edge, else very good condition with text clean and binding sound / no dust jacket.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 288 pages; Physical desc. : 288 p. , [7] p. Of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subject: MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892-1978) - Friends and associates. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 288 pages; Physical desc. : 288 p. , [7] p. Of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subject: MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892-1978) - Friends and associates. 1 Kg.

Octavo, boards. First edition. A selection of MacDiarmid's prose pieces written between 1923 and 1962; short stories, playlets, essays and criticism, a number of which are in vernacular Scots. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some curl and short tears along bottom edges. (#116404).

1st U.K. edition. 8vo. 288pp. B/w. illustrationsl. Bookplate, original boards, in rubbed d/w. US$18.

First Separate Edition. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers; 30pp. Text paper mildly toned; text unopened; Very Good or better. Pseudonymous article by MacDiarmid himself; originally appeared in the National Weekly (Glasgow). Undated, but most sources cite as 1952.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 18 pages. 10.4 x 8.76 inches. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. MacDiarmid (1892-1978) was one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance. He was one of the founders of the National Party of Scotland. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers (paperback). Signed by the MacDiarmid.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated [24]. Publisher's blue card wraps printed in black, printed price of 70p to rear. Lightly handled. Fine.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 344 ; 30 cm. Subjects; English literature Scottish authors History and criticism. English literature Scottish writers, 1900-1945 Critical studies Extracts from periodicals. English Literature Scottish Authors Biography 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 12. Publisher's printed card wraps designed by Allan Donaldson, stapled. Printed price of 4/- net to inner cover. Slight crease to top of the spine. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.[2]; 13; [1]. Publisher's card wraps, sewn, lettered in grey. Number of 86 of just 350 copies printed. Internally fine, some bruising and small tears to edges of the covers. Very good.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 344 ; 30 cm. Subjects; English literature Scottish authors History and criticism. English literature Scottish writers, 1900-1945 Critical studies Extracts from periodicals. English Literature Scottish Authors Biography 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1931. First edition limited to 450 copies, of which this is copy 3 (a large paper edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the author, was also issued). [vi], 44pp. and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge gilt. Hugh McDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928, but left in 1933 due to his Marxist-Leninist views. This collection of seventeen poems also contains an introductory essay by 'AE' (George William Russell) and an author's note. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with a black cloth spine and gold titling on the spine. There is a gold stamped illustration of a rampant unicorn on the bottom corner of the front board. The case of the book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear and slight fading along about 1/2" of the top edge of the front board. Slight lifting to the surface of the front endpaper about the fold. The contents are tight and clean with an inscription dated 1943 on the back of the front free endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 42; [2]. Publisher's blue textured card wraps printed in black to upper. Lightly handled. Fine.

Original Black Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good to Near Fine. First Editions. 1992-2001. All 13 volumes of MacDiarmid's works published as part of Carcanet's MacDiarmid 2000 program. Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen-name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), progenitor of the Scottish Literary Renaissance and the greatest Scottish writer of the twentieth century. Since his death, his literary and political influence have remained incalculable. Chiefly by virtue of his work, it became possible to represent Scotland, nationally and internationally, in recognisably modern ways. On the centenary of his birth in 1992, Carcanet launched the MacDiarmid 2000 programme, to bring into print all of his major writings. Books and unclipped jackets all in very good to Near Fine condition. A few of the jackets have marks where price stickers have been removed and there is a small patch of lifting of the surface to the bottom of the spine of 'Scottish Eccentrics'. The 13th volume, 'New Selected Letters' has an inscription from one of the editors, Owen Dudley Edwards, on the title page. Otherwise there are no inscriptions in any of the books. PLEASE NOTE Heavy set so extra postage may be required for non-UK customers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. COPY NO. 28 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Edinburgh, 1972. Pbk,15p. Minor remains of previous owner's inscription o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. [Home Rule - Independence - Nationalism - Scotland] j1330 / m7364. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), unpaginated [64]. Publisher's printed card wraps, sewn. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Lightly handled. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.40. Publisher's green cloth, titles in gilt to upper. Dust-jacket with printed price of 5/- net to front flap. Undated but 1952. Offset toning to endpapers, some toning and spotting to edges. Dust-jacket toned and marked, some chipping to extremities. Very good.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxxiii [1] 461 [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £25 to front flap. Internally pristine but for a few light pencil annotations and an ownership signature in blue ink to front flyleaf. Some mild spotting to pastedowns. Mould stains to cloth and reverse of jacket. A few marks to jacket panels, spine sunned. Minor edgewear. Bookmark loosely inserted. Very good. One of MacDiarmid's important critical works about the nature and progression of Scottish literature, specifically poetry. 'Contemporary Scottish Studies' was first published in The Scottish Educational Journal in the mid 1920s.

[Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 107 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Quite heavy wear to top edge of covers; light handling otherwise. Very good. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.

GRIEVE, C.M. CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH STUDIES. First Series. By C.M. Grieve [Hugh MacDiarmid]. London: Leonard Parsons, [1926]. 8vo., blue cloth, 344 pages. First Edition. Signed presentation from Grieve (as MacDiarmid) on the front endpaper, dated Edinburgh, May 1962. Good (some wear & bit of spotting front cover; some scattered foxing, mostly to the front & end sheets). $85.00.