Pseudonym Grieve Christopher Murray (40 results)

Condition: FINE. First thus. An accessible new edition of a poem described as the greatest long poem in Scottish literature when it was originally published in the mid 1920s. Includes a new preface, marginal gloss in English for those who have no Scots, and Weston's explanatory notes and background information. A handsome production, bound in lavender cloth boards with cream cloth spine, slightly oversized square format. xiv, 122 pp. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine and the corners).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (17 x 22cm), pp.19; [5]. Publisher's printed wraps designed by Peter McGinn, with printed price of three shillings to upper, stapled twice. Signed by the author to the title page. Lightly handled. Fine. A transcript of a lecture given at Edinburgh University, a signed limited edition of fifty copies was also issued. Signed by Author.

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.

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.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. [Scottish Poetry] BIRTHDAY EDITION, the FOURTH EDITION overall. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 116. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the light blue typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Internally crisp and clean, with some light wear and toning to jacket. Near fine. First published in 1926, this is probably MacDiarmid's best known collection, and one the most significant modernist poems of the early twentieth century, sitting comfortably alongside Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (1922). This fourth edition was published to celebrate the poet's 70th birthday.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.69 [3]. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt monogram decoration to upper. Top edge red. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket a little sunned to spine, with some light wear to edges. Near fine. A republication of various poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 1cm), pp.[5]; 22; [1]. The less common hardback issue with the dust-jacket laminated to boards. Illustrated. Signed by the author and his wife and fellow poet Valda Trevlyn to flyleaf. Some dustiness to edges, light wear to the extremities of the binding, a few marks to covers. Very good. Signed by Author.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Plain card wraps with a beige cloth spine. Signed by Hugh MacDiarmid to title page. Profusely illustrated. Likely a proof copy from the plain binding, the book was issue in a trade and a deluxe limited edition hardback. Lightly marked and handled to covers and edges. Very good.

First Edition. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of Scotch characters: Lord George Gordon; Sir Thomas Urquhart; William McGonagall; James Hogg; Prof. John Wilson; William Berry; Thomas Davidson; Elspeth Buchan; James Burnett; James Macpherson; William Lauder; and David Hume.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Political Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 14cm), pp.[20]. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue and black to upper. Light handling. A fine copy, almost as-new. MacDiarmid explores the contradictions between the necessity of class struggle, and the subconscious goal of the proletariat itself to become bourgeoisie.

FIRST EDITION. Offprint broadside (29 x 23cm), single sheet issued as an offprint in the November 1963 issue of Forward Scotland. Some marking to righthand margin and one small closed tear to same. Uncommon. Near fine.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge brown, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A lightly sunned strip to top edge on rear cover of jacket, and some spotting to edges. Near fine. A mishmash of poems not included in 'Collected Poems' (1962), as well as some new material. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

[Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] 13 [1]. Number 166 of 350 copies thus, also SIGNED by the author in blue ink to first blank. Publisher's blue card wraps with white titles, sewn. Some rubbing and handling to covers, with a little toning to edges. Near fine. Containing 'By Wauchopeside' (1932), and 'The Diamond Body: In a Cave of the Sea' (1939). From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde. Signed.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with just a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (25s net to the lower front flap). Signed by Hugh MacDiarmid in blue ink on the front endpaper. This collection was published to coincide with the poet's seventy-fifth birthday. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Political Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Professor Knight | with the compliments | of the author | Hugh MacDiarmid. | 23/6/60'. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the blue dust-jacket titled in red, priced at 5s. Spotting and toning to jacket, with a couple of small chips. Light spotting also to endpapers. Near fine. Three related poems written between 1930 and 1955, collected here for the first time. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.143 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles to yellow paper label on spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s to spine. Cloth chipped to head of spine. Jacket stained and soiled, with large losses to head of spine, chips and closed tears to edges, and recent tape repairs to split upper fold. 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.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 90 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket moderately rubbed and chipped to edges, with heavy toning to spine. Very good. MacDiarmid's second 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Crosbie, priced at 6s. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing minor wear only, and a little chipping to jacket edges. Near fine.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 206 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Harold Edwards | with ever regard | from | Hugh MacDiarmid. | London. | June 1934.' Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the cream dust-jacket, priced at 8/6 to spine. Quite heavy spotting and toning to edges. Light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries. Heavy toning and some spotting to jacket, with rubbing and chipping to edges, and split along some folds. Very good. Intended to be complimentary to 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), this long linked cycle of poems is named in response to a letter sent to the author by Prof. Lascelles Abercrombie remarking "You have a serpent in you which will eat up everything else.". Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some toning to jacket spine and just a few small chips. Near fine. MacDiarmid's first 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926), introduced with a highly complementary preface by John Buchan.

First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers. Light browning to preliminaries. Rubbed cloth extensively and rather roughly re-coloured. A bump to the centre of the spine, with some loss of gilt. Very good. After publishing several articles in favour of Italian-style Fascism in the 1920's, Grieve here emerges as a fervent Communist in this collection, with the title poem praising Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as a modern Messiah. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.