'SELECTED POEMS, 1955-80' Unknown - 1981

Edgefield Road, Loanhead, Midlothian: Macdonald Publishers, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very good, clean, unmarked solid copy.

Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland: Macdonald Publishers. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo 0904265552 Dust jacket complete and ubclipped. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 234 pages clean and tight. Iain Crichton Smith's first collection of poems in English was published by Macdonald in 1955, and in the quarter-century since then his voice has become one of the most individual in contemporary Scottish writing. His prolific output has included novels, stories and plays, in addition to poems, and he writes in both English and Gaelic. His Gaelic background gives him strong roots in an important part of the Scottish past, and, in turn, it gives also a wider perspective to his naturally alert view of the present world. His first Selected Poems appeared in 1970, so the time is ripe for a new gathering. This new selection, chosen, arranged and edited by Robin Fulton, draws on all of his published English poetry and includes too… Leer más

Loanhead, Midlothian: Macdonald Publishers, 1981. Hardcover. Very good+/Very good+. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing to edges of boards and spine, faint sun to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has sun toning to spine and edges of panels.