Hawkfall and other stories : First printing

Brown, George Mackay

ISBN 10: 0701203919 / ISBN 13: 9780701203917

Published by The Hogarth Press, London, United Kingdom, 1974

About this Item

True first British printing with original clipped jacket. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a little pushing/rubbing/creasing to head/tail of spine and to corners, the odd small mark/minor foxing to reverse (white side), minor patchy browning and a little patchy creasing to edges. Boards are near fine with very minor pushing/bumping to corners and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Top of pages slightly dusty. Odd small mark/mild foxing to page edges and tops. Odd small scratch to edge of pages. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hawkfall and other stories : First printing
• Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701203919
• ISBN 13: 9780701203917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

He was dead. The spirit of the Beloved One had gone on alone into the hall of death. His body was left to them for seven days yet so that they might give it a fitting farewell. Now it was time for it too to be sent after. The priests washed his old frail bluish body with water that had been drawn at sunrise. They arrayed him in his ceremonial vestments: the dyed woollen kirtle, the great gray cloak of wolfskin, the seelskin slippers. Across his breast they laid his whalebone bow, with seven arrows of larch. In his right hand they put the long oaken spear. The old mouth began to smile in its scant silken beard, perhaps because everything was being done well and according to the first writings. Now it was time. All was ready.

About the Author

George Mackay Brown is one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. His collection of short stories A Time to Keep (1971) won the Katherine Mansfield Mentor short story prize and his novel Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. He died in 1996.