A Spell for Green Corn

by George Mackay Brown

$48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: The Hogarth Press, 1970. Historical fiction FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.91 1 . Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Patricia Davey priced at £1.05 / 21s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, a few marks to jacket. Very good indeed. A chronicle in six scenes set in 17th century Orkney, about a wild-living fiddler and the girl he seduces, who is later condemned to be burnt

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