Poems Scots and English by W.D. Cocker - 1979

Brown Son and Ferguson, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. Complete Edition. 220 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and creasing to gutters; some minor looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with heavy rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with visible loss and creasing to panels.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1935 Complete Edition. 220pp includes a glossary and index to first lines. In part, the foreword reads: "In the main, my Scots is the speech that I was familiar with as a boy in Strathendrick; and I seldom use a word that would not come as readily to my tongue as to my pen." These poems have been written over a period of years. There are "Bibical".... "Narrative Poems"...."Portraits"...."Historical, Traditional and Legendary", etc, etc, poems. Blue cloth boards. Dark title print. No ownership markings, Very pale colour spotting to outside edges. A sound copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paperback. Very Good.