Grieve Hamilton (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. Reprint. 158 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with black lettering over blue cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription plate to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Minor foxing and soiling to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Moderate tanning to spine, with foxing, staining and soiling to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Gift inscription written on the front free end paper page. Publication of 220 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and chipped pieces along the edges. The boards are marked and a touch edge worn, remain in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Paterson, A S (illustrator). Not dated but c 1940. 160pp. 45 illustrations in text by A S Paterson. Blue cloth-covered boards, a little rubbed at edges, with minor fraying at spine tips. Remnants of label. Endpapers a tad creamed, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Sketches of material regarding the native Maori race gathered while the author spent five years in the remote backblocks of Maoriland in the 1930s. Paints picture of contemporary M?ori life. 0.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A. S. Paterson (illustrator). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 159 pages/numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tidy, light foxing in edges, a name in front. Dust jacket is price unclipped but has gaps and tears, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First?. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine, with b&w illstns by A. S. Paterson. Tidy, slightly faded at the spine, fep removed, faint toning in half-title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

HB. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. A.S. Paterson (illustrator). First Edition. On ffep inscribed by author Sept 1939. Light dusting of soiling to red cloth on boards with black title Spine: moderate sunning. Light soiling to the bottom edge. Eps: just a few sprinkles of foxing, name/address to ffep. Clean content. Binding is firm. 159p. By Author & Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON GRIEVE ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER. Tight and square, bump to foot of spine, light foxing in edges. Dust jacket is unclipped and bright, edge gaps, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback, D/J price clipped, light bumping to spine and corners, and light marks on back cover, o/w v/g,v/g.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Paterson, A. S. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback, red cloth, no dust-wrapper. 159pp. Illustrated by A. S. Paterson. 1st edition. nd.[circa 1940]. Spine slightly faded and dulled. Bookplate of Ann Barbara to front free end-paper. A little foxing. A decent copy. (bs131).

Condition: Very Good. No jacket. Mild wear to boards. Minor tanning/foxing to pages, but content is clear and legible throughout.

[Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding at pp.90/91. Moderate rubbing and toning to boards. Very good. The first appearance in print of the poet Christopher Murray Grieve, leader of the Scottish Literary Renaissance who would later publish under the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid. This first issue of Northern Numbers, containing strong contributions from the likes of John Buchan, Violet Jacob, and Neil Munro, was very favourably reviewed, with particular praise directed towards the editor Grieve who, according the Glasgow Herald, "possesses more talent and latent power than any other contributor to this book.".