Search Results: First Editions from Boreas Books

A very good, near fine, clean, bright, tight copy. Signed by author.

A very good, clean, bright, tight copy with no inscriptions.

Beautifully bound special edition of selected poems by German poet, Karl Krolow presented alongside with English translations by Kevin Perryman. These selected poems were published by Babel on the occasion of Krolow's 70th birthday. The translations were authorized by Karl Krolow and are printed here for the first time. Celebrated along with Krolow's work are signed poems by Gunter Grass, George Mackay Brown, Walter Helmut Fritz, and Gunter Kunert. A limited edition of just 30 copies. A very scarce copy,

A very good, near fine, clean, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

A very, very good copy in an outstanding but clipped dust jacket. Bright yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine. A biography by J Frank Dobie who met Lilly and was fascinated the extraordinary man and the legend.Ben Lilly was "the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett by his own account and also by the record". He was at one time 'chief huntsman' to Teddy Roosevelt, hunted in Texas and Mexico, and came to be known as the master sign reader of the Rockies.

"This book reveals in simple language the part played by Suggestion in the Miracles of Christ. It examines the relation of Autosuggestion to Prayer and Faith, and shows how Christianity and Autosuggestion may work together to the great good of both." Green board covers with cloth spine, paper labels to front and spine. Some toning to front endpapers. Top corners bumped and top edge of text block dust dulled. Please see photographs for condition of book.

Yellow card covers with title and illustration in red. Nine poems by Sydney Goodsir Smith and printed in a limited edition of 220 of which this is number 210. A very good, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

A very good, clean, tight, copy with no inscriptions. Dust jacket unclipped.

A very good, bright, tight copy with no inscriptions.

Beautiful copy of limited edition of 125 of Eric Linklater's The Crusader's Key, printed at the White Owl Press by Edward Kricorissian and Denis Fairbarns, with book design by Herbert Jones and illustrations by Miss N. Kirkham. Striking orange cloth covered boards with bevelled edges. Some slight shelf wear to extremities. Signed by author. Please see photographs for condition. A very good, clean, tight copy of this lovely book.

A pleasing, bright, tight, near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed and dated by author. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. The humorous story of a famous painter with a disease-ridden body who is given a new lease of life when his head is grafted onto a splendidly muscular torso with an overpowering sexual drive.

A nice copy of this title by extraordinary and eccentric Sydney Goodsir Smith of whom Hugh MacDiarmid said 'he did for Edinburgh something very similar to what James Joyce achieved for Dublin'. Book in very good, tight condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket with small piece missing from bottom front and chipping to top front edge. 60 pages. Dust jacket unclipped and showing original price of six shillings. Several full page illustrations by Denis Peploe. No. 7 of the Poetry Scotland Series.

A very good, clean, bright, tight copy with no inscriptions.

"Edwin Muir" The W D Thomas Memorial Lecture of 1960 delivered at University College Swansea. Grey card covers with sewn in pages. 26 pages. Some shelf wear to wrapper edges and marks to cover. Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.

A very good, clean, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

Russet coloured cloth boards with impressed patterning. Some shelf wear to extremities and fading to lettering on spine. Please see photographs for thorough presentation of condition.

A very good, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.

'Gambit' was the magazine of the Edinburgh University Review of Spring 1959. George Mackay Brown is credited as Editorial Staff along with Jane Hannay. Brown also contributes an article titled 'Edwin Muir'.Other contributors are Ian H Finlay, Robin Fulton, Norman MacCaig, Alan Jackson, Ian Macarthur, Meta H MacBain, Tom Scott and Edward Durham Taylor. 30 pages.

This edition of Gowdspink in Reekie has been limited to 600 copies of which numbers 1 to 100 have been signed by the author. This is No. 493 thus not signed. Olive green dust jacket with illustration by Geoffrey Roper with toning to edges and small rectangular trace mark. Book in fine, clean and tight condition. 24 pages.

Green card covers with card title plate to front cover. Sun tanning to covers and some shelf wear to cover extremities. Some foxing to pages.Title page states "This little book owes its origin to the enterprise of Richard Owen Clay and was completed by those who shared in the work." Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.