Author: Neil M. Gunn
Title: The Green Isle of the Great Deep
Description: London , Faber and Faber Limited , 1944. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this important work, exploring themes such as of knowledge without wisdom and published during the Scottish Renaissance. The first edition, first impression of this work. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A dystopian novel by one of the most influential writers of the Scottish Renaissance, Neil M. Gunn. The story is an allegory about totalitarianism and the nature of freedom and features characters drawn from Gunn's previous work 'Young Art and Old Hector&apos. Gunn himself has named this book to be his best in his opinion. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Very light shelf wear to extremities, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper unclipped and sound. Slight sunning to wrap, heaviest to the spine and small chipping to the tail. Scattered marking to the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with marginal age toning, due to paper used. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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