Northern Numbers; Being Representative Selections from Certain Living Scottish Poets. First and Second Series, Single Volume Edition
- Edinburgh: T. Foulis, 1922
Edinburgh: T. Foulis, 1922. First Thus. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, over blue paper covered boards. Lacking dustjacket. 130pp.; 142pp. [1pp.] ads to rear. Pagination essentially the result of two sets of first edition sheets being bound together, including original title pages and the ads to the rear of the Second Series. Light scuffing to the corners with a bit of stripping away of the paper, some soiling and thumbing to the boards in places and some minor bumping and softening to the spine ends; internally clean, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A very good copy.
An oddly produced volume, edited by Hugh McDiarmid under the name of C.M. Grieve, and originally issued between 1920 and 1921 to showcase the contemorary voices of Scottish poetry. Series I and Series II were later combined, apparently by the simple expedient of taking all the original leftover unbound sheets and cramming them in together in a single volume binding. A charming and rather peculiar collection of carefully chosen poetry and poets.
An oddly produced volume, edited by Hugh McDiarmid under the name of C.M. Grieve, and originally issued between 1920 and 1921 to showcase the contemorary voices of Scottish poetry. Series I and Series II were later combined, apparently by the simple expedient of taking all the original leftover unbound sheets and cramming them in together in a single volume binding. A charming and rather peculiar collection of carefully chosen poetry and poets.