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The Old Wife & Other Stories, M. Jamieson: Hardback: Signed 1st Edition
The Old Wife & Other Stories, M. Jamieson: Hardback: Signed 1st Edition
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The Old Wife & Other Stories
By Morley Jamieson.
Published by M. MacDonald Ltd, Edinburgh, 1972. Signed first edition. Hardback cover with dustjacket (clipped), 140 pages.
CONDITION
Overall fair condition - see photos. Some fading to spine of dustjacket, and crumpling around edges, tiny tear to top rear edge. Inscription to free end paper. Otherwise no names or writing.
Morley Jamieson has long been established as one of Scotland's leading exponents of that most difficult of literary genres, the short story.
The late Frank O'Connor admired 'The Night Light' because, he said, the author was writing from and transforming experience. It is this vision of essential truth that animates the entire collection Variously compared to Maupassant and D. H. Lawrence, Morley Jamieson stands in the presence of the masters, not in their shadow as the inclusion of The Old Wife' in 4 World of Great Stories, New York, 1947, would clearly suggest. The stark and haunting quality of the ballad rings constantly in these interiors and exteriors of Scottish life.
(Bindery shelves A2)
