The Two Fiddlers
Title: The Two Fiddlers
Author: George Mackay Brown - Illustrated by Ian MacInnes
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date: 1974
Hardback - 1st Edition with original dustcover
Additional Product Information
Orkney has been described as a land where the lives of living people turn into legend(Edwin Muir). The author elaborates on this idea in his introduction to the 10 stories that are told in this collection.
About the illustrator:
Ian MacInnes, artist and teacher was born in Stromness, Orkney in 1922 and died Stromness 12 December 2003.
The Orcadian artist and teacher was the friend and illustrator, from his first book, of the poet George Mackay Brown.
He designed and illustrated George Mackay Brown's first collection of verse, The Storm and Other Poems (1954), and went on to design the dust-jackets of some of his finest novels, including Greenvoe (1972) and Magnus (1975). He also illustrated Brown's three children's books The Two Fiddlers (1974), Pictures in the Cave (1977) and Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980).
Condition Notes
An excellent copy of the first edition with the original dustcover with a protective poly-cover - there is some light spotting on the cover.
The inside pages are bright and clean throughout. There is previous owner name in ink on the inside front end paper.
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