Carotid Cornucopius Caird O The Cannon Gait And Voyeur O The Outluik Touer. His Splores, Cantaips, Wisdoms, Houghmagandies, Peribibulatiouns And All Kinna Abstrapulous Junketings and Ongoings Abowt The High Toun of Edenberg, Capitule of Boney Sotland… by Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens O Crankmirligo And The Clinks, Barmint.

Notes

The first edition of Goodsir Smith's only novel, which Hugh MacDiarmid proclaimed in The Voice of Scotland as 'that tremendous synthetic embodiment of all the uproarious scandalous, drunken life of the city [of Edinburgh]'. It was greatly expanded for its 1964 reissue, this edition being, per the front board, 'The first 4 fitts making "One Quart"'. Only 300 copies were printed, for distribution to the 'Auk Society' - more than a few of which were then inscribed. This example has a particularly strong association: Goodsir Smith has inscribed it in his idiosyncratic vernacular to his friend the editor and publisher Robin Lorimer: 'Til Ropie Leerimor, miti publisher, in purmint o a wee dabiture, frae the Auk'. In 1947 Lorimer was an editor for Nelson, but a decade later he was at Oliver & Boyd where he pushed the firm to print Goodsir Smith's The Wallace, and after setting up on his own as Southside Lorimer published Fifteen Poems and a Play.