Northern Numbers Being Representative Selections by Grieve C M Buchan John C M (7 results)

First Edition. The second volume of the significant Scottish poetry collection 'Northern Numbers' which featured the first flowering of what was to become the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Hardcover edition. With the signature of the microbiologist B.C.J.G. Knight to the front endpaper. Board with cloth spine - worn to tips otherwise VG.

First Edition. The second volume of the significant Scottish poetry collection 'Northern Numbers' which featured the first flowering of what was to become the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Hardcover edition. Boards with cloth spine .VG.

First Edition. The first volume of the significant Scottish poetry collections 'Northern Numbers' which featured the first flowering of what was to become the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Blue cloth spine with gilt titles on light blue boards. The hardcover edition (also appeared in softcovers). Prize bookplate to front pastedown otherwise VG.

First Edition. The first volume of the significant Scottish poetry collections 'Northern Numbers' which featured the first flowering of what was to become the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Blue cloth spine with gilt titles on light blue boards. The hardcover edition (also appeared in softcovers) VG+.

First Edition. The first volume of the significant Scottish poetry collections 'Northern Numbers' which featured the first flowering of what was to become the Scottish Literary Renaissance. Blue cloth spine with gilt titles on light blue boards. The hardcover edition (also appeared in softcovers) VG.

Hb Original stiff card covers, blue cloth backstrap contained in the original buff dustwrapper priced at 6 Shillings Contributions by Living Scottish Poets with a foreword by C.M. Grieve ( Hugh MacDiarmid A Vg copy in Good + Chipped and repaired Dw.

[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.".