Hugh MacDiarmid: A Festschrift. Edinburgh: K D Duval 1962 [with essays and reminiscence by Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Helen B. Cruickshank, Ronald Stevenson, David Daiches, etc.]






Book Description
(MACDIARMID, Hugh). Hugh MacDiarmid: A Festschrift. Edinburgh: K D Duval 1962. Edited by K D Duval and Sydney Goodsir Smith. Inscribed by Hugh MacDiarmid to Norman Peterkin: 'Signed, with my best wishes,/ for my friend/ Norman Peterkin./ Hugh MacDiarmid./ March 4th, 1967.' With contributions by the two editors, and essays by Norman MacCaig, George Bruce, David Craig, Helen B. Cruickshanks, Walter Keir, Douglas Young, David Daiches, Maurice Lindsay, William R. Aitken, A.T. Cunninghame, Albert Mackie, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Sealey, Ronald Stevenson and Douglas Young. Fine copy, in like price-clipped dj.
Dealer Notes
Norman Peterkin was a composer influenced by Greig. He is perhaps best known today for his brief song "I heard a piper piping" He also spent many years involved in music publishing which occupied much of his middle life, only returning to composing late in life. His last surviving piece was a setting of one of MacDiarmid's poems in 1967. Laid in to this copy is a copy of his funeral oration composed and read by Alistair Chisholm, which was privately printed in 1982 for John Updike (Bookseller), Edinburgh, in an edition of 90 copies at the Tragara Press. Single cream sheet of paper, printed on one side only. Folded once. Fine copy
Author
(MACDIARMID, Hugh).
Date
1962.
Binding
Hardback.
Publisher
Edinburgh: K D Duval.
Illustrator
Photographs of the author and his friends.
Condition
Fine in dj.
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