Buy this book on-line BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY: : THE TWO FIDDLERS: Tales from OrkneyLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1974. ISBN 0701150416.
UK,slim 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Prior owner inscrptn/name(?) tippexed at top,right-hand corner of front free endpaper and price-clip to dw/dj - but with publisher's other adhesive price label still in situ.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Iain MacInnes,illustrated front panel and spine/backstrip of dw/dj,with black and black and faded red lettering respectively; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly toned and minimally grubbed,fore- edges bright and cleaner; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - one dog-ear reading crease to pp29/30 top corner - no other creasing to any other pages' corners.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain pale green cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers - tippexing excepted.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-162pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,10 stories/tales,10 separate story title separator pages each with b/w line illustrated story headpiece and each story with a full-page b/w line illustration - all by Ian MacInnes,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and contents list/table with also,the 10th and last full-page illustration with last page of text to verso - at the rear.The author's first book for children.
Orkney has been described as a land where the lives of living people turn into legend.George Mackay Brown elaborates this idea in his introduction to a collection of its tales: 'In a small community, enclosed by sea and sky and fields,it is possible to see man's life as a whole.It has a clear outline,and becomes larger than life.'
The islander's love of legends extended beyond a natural curiosity about the lives of their neighbours - the laird,the minister,smugglers and lovers - and the many mysterious phenomena around them - standing stones,green knowes,the scree-littered hills of Hoy.Into more elemental regions their gift for story-making led them,their imaginations being challenged alike by the taste of the sea,the connection between music and corn and death,the seal's particular love of music. Beside the fish-oil lamps,through the winter evenings of many centuries,the Orkney people developed their unique art,to which George Mackay Brown - master storyteller,poet,and himself a native of Orkney - now pays tribute in a language as powerful and haunting as the landscape which was the source of its inspiration.
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