Search Results: Authors starting with G from Boreas Books

"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.

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.

'CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS: The first 4 fitts making "One Quart" by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens of Crankmirligo.' Blue paper-covered boards with title printed in black. Presentation copy from the author with eight line handwritten inscriptions by Sydney Goodsir Smith on front endpaper. This is the 1947 first edition with a limited run of just 300 copies. Frontispiece illustrated with print of an auk. 80 pages. Sydney Goodsir Smith was a poet, critic and journalist who is best remembered for his contribution to the 20th century revival of poetry in the Scots language. Discolouration around edges of cover and some wear to extremities. A scarce title from a truly eccentric writer.

Book in very good, tight condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket not price clipped but with small closed tear to top front corner. Please see photographs for further information regarding condition.

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.

Special, luxury limited first edition of Figs and Thistles by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edition limited to just one hundred copies. Signed by the author. An excellent, fine condition copy of this rare edition. Separate folded paper 'Word Leet' glossary of dialect words inserted as published. Half leather binding with blue cloth covers. Issued without dust jacket.

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.

Neat book of nine poems by esteemed Orcadian poet, Yvonne Gray in dove grey wrappers with pages sewn in. Clean, bright, tight, fine condition.

A very good, tight copy of this uncommon title. Clean and bright text block with no inscriptions. Dust jacket unclipped with only minor chipping to extremities. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. The last novel of an author considered by many to be one of the finest of the century.