Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1899. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this collection of mystical Celtic tales and sketches by "Fiona Macleod," the feminine alter-ego of William Sharp. It is generally agreed that Sharp did his best writing when he wrote as a woman, and it is also... More
Mountain Songs and Island Runes. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes & Colleagues, n.d. [1896]. 6 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this volume of verse by the Scottish mystical writer who wrote first as William Sharp and then, beginning in 1894, as "Fiona Macleod" --... More
A Romance of the Isles. Derby: printd by Harpur and Murray at the Moray Press in May 1894 and sold by Frank Murray at his Bookshops in Derby Leicester and Nottingham. Original flexible boards covered with glazed grey-green paper elaborately decorated in gilt. First Edition (trade issue -- there were... More
London: Grant Richards, 1899. 2 pp undated ads plus 12 pp ads dated 1899. Original purple cloth. First Edition of this largely autobiographical novel, documenting the tension between the protagonist's poetic self and his bourgeois parents. Sharp had grown up in the Scottish Highlands, where at an early stage he... More
