"CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS" BY SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH (1947) (INSCRIBED BY THE POET)

Carotid Cornucopius: . Caird O The Cannon Gait and Voyeur O the Outluik Touer... A Drammantick, Backside, Bogbide Bedride or Badside Buik in-containuenting Shree Hunder an Sexty-Five Fitts, ane For Ilka Nicht O the Rear Wi a Pologue & a Peppybogue [by Sydney Goodsir Smith]. [Front Cover States]: CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS: The first 4 fitts making "One Quart" by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens of Crankmirligo.

[Glasgow]: The Caledonian Press, 1947.

Price: $400.00

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List Ask a Question
Free Domestic Delivery

About the item

First edition. 80pp. 8vo. "CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS" BY SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH (1947)
(INSCRIBED BY THE POET). Blue paper-covered boards printed in black. Slightly bumped at tip of spine, else a near fine copy [issued without printed dust jacket].

Item #346346

Inscribed and signed by Sydney Goodsir Smith: "For John Boyes/ with regards/ from/ Sydney Goodsir Smith" (on front flyleaf). The recipient is Professor John Boyes of Newcastle Upon Tyne (with original 1954 receipt, from Edinburgh bookseller William Brown, noting that the author has signed the book).

Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975), Scottish poet and playwright, was born in Wellington, New Zealand and moved to Edinburgh in 1928, and he attended Edinburgh University. His first collection of verse was published in 1941 ('Skail Wind').