Skail Wind. Poems.

  • Smith, Sydney Goodsir
  • Edinburgh: The Chalmers Press 1941

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 67, [1]. Original blue boards printed in red. Boards a little soiled, some wear to head of spine. Small ownership inscription of Ewan Macfagan[?] to title-page

Notes

Sydney Goodsir Smith's first collection of poetry and his only book to contain any poetry in English, with the rest of his work (and some of the poems here) being in Scots. Only 80 copies were printed (McCaffery, 'Sydney Goodsir Smith: Poet', 2020).

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