Ten Poems. [With a frontispiece illustration by Mary Parker Rhodes]

Morley JAMIESON

Published by Edinburgh: Bruntons, 1978

About this Item

Red wrappers. Edition limited to 210 numbered copies, printed at the Tragara Press and signed by the author, this copy additionally inscribed by the author to Alastair Fowler, "To Alistair Fowler with kindest wishes from Morley". Includes "In Memoriam James Pope-Hennessey [sic]" ("He over-reached in his giving . . .") and "In Memoriam George Scott Moncrieff": "I first saw him come out of the grocer's / With a bag of bottled beer, and / A loaf under his arm. / Even then, I knew he had charm . . . // Now in the awkward spaces that prevail / Where only Absolute echoes the Absolute, / And all questions have an answer in facile belief, / My inward ear cannot fail to hear / A rumble of polite dissent from Scott Moncrieff." Morley Jamieson (1917-1989) was a rare 20th-century example of the writer bookseller. A graduate of Newbattle, he started his career lodging with his new wife, Flora, at Edwin and Willa Muir's in Blantyre Terrace. He took over Alexander Brunton's attractive basement bookshop at 38a George Street, Edinburgh, in 1966; later it migrated to 28a Dundas Street (where the North Bookshop of Alan Anderson, founder of the Tragara Press, was long sited at no. 77). Alastair Fowler (1930-2022), poet and critic, was Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, 1972-84.

Seller Inventory # 32M100264

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Poems. [With a frontispiece illustration by Mary Parker Rhodes]
• Publisher: Edinburgh: Bruntons
• Publication Date: 1978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scottish