ten poems de morley jamieson (4 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Red card covers with black lettering, black and white frontis, upper cover edges are lightly rubbed, copy no. 665 of 210 copies set in 14 point Felicity and printed by hand at the Tragara Press. Signed by aouthor at rear. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05323031053. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Red wrappers. Edition limited to 210 numbered copies, printed at the Tragara Press and signed by the author. 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). Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. Limited Edition. Hardback, black cloth spine with gilt title to spine, marbled paper covered boards. One of ten copies bound as a hardback. Unpaginated, [20]pp. Tipped in frontis by Mary Parker Rhodes. No. 8 of a limited edition of only 210 copies, signed by Morley Jamieson. An excellent copy. (r43). Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 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. Inscribed by Author(s).