SMITH, Sydney Goodsir. Carotid Cornucopius
SMITH, Sydney Goodsir [Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens]. Carotid Cornucopius. The first 4 fitts making ‘one quart’. Subtitled: Caird o the Cannon Gait and Voyeur o the Outluik Touer. His splores, cantraips, wisdoms, houghmagandies, peribibulations and all kinna abstrapulous junketings and ongoings abowt the high toun of Edenberg, capitule of Boney Scotland. A drammantick, backside, bogbide bedride or bedside buik in-containuenting shree hunder an sexty-five fitts, ane for ilka nicht o the rear wi a pologue & a peppybogue. Glasgow: The Caledonian Press. 1947. 8vo. Softcover wraps with French flaps. First edition, being one of 300 copies only. A very good copy, the covers a little toned and lightly stained, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed. Binding sound. The contents generally fine, just some light marks within, minor.
The New Zealand-born Scottish author’s second major work, often dubbed ‘the Scottish Finnegans Wake’, and for good reason; though the narrative does bizarrely begin to land with a bit of rhythm, the syntax and Scots verbiage renders this supremely experimental novel a challenge. Nevertheless, the work was lauded as a genuine tour-de-force in wordplay and a high point in Scottish Renaissance and, arguably, in modernism overall. The first edition is uncommon.
SMITH, Sydney Goodsir [Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens]. Carotid Cornucopius. The first 4 fitts making ‘one quart’. Subtitled: Caird o the Cannon Gait and Voyeur o the Outluik Touer. His splores, cantraips, wisdoms, houghmagandies, peribibulations and all kinna abstrapulous junketings and ongoings abowt the high toun of Edenberg, capitule of Boney Scotland. A drammantick, backside, bogbide bedride or bedside buik in-containuenting shree hunder an sexty-five fitts, ane for ilka nicht o the rear wi a pologue & a peppybogue. Glasgow: The Caledonian Press. 1947. 8vo. Softcover wraps with French flaps. First edition, being one of 300 copies only. A very good copy, the covers a little toned and lightly stained, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed. Binding sound. The contents generally fine, just some light marks within, minor.
The New Zealand-born Scottish author’s second major work, often dubbed ‘the Scottish Finnegans Wake’, and for good reason; though the narrative does bizarrely begin to land with a bit of rhythm, the syntax and Scots verbiage renders this supremely experimental novel a challenge. Nevertheless, the work was lauded as a genuine tour-de-force in wordplay and a high point in Scottish Renaissance and, arguably, in modernism overall. The first edition is uncommon.
SMITH, Sydney Goodsir [Gude Schir Skidderie Smithereens]. Carotid Cornucopius. The first 4 fitts making ‘one quart’. Subtitled: Caird o the Cannon Gait and Voyeur o the Outluik Touer. His splores, cantraips, wisdoms, houghmagandies, peribibulations and all kinna abstrapulous junketings and ongoings abowt the high toun of Edenberg, capitule of Boney Scotland. A drammantick, backside, bogbide bedride or bedside buik in-containuenting shree hunder an sexty-five fitts, ane for ilka nicht o the rear wi a pologue & a peppybogue. Glasgow: The Caledonian Press. 1947. 8vo. Softcover wraps with French flaps. First edition, being one of 300 copies only. A very good copy, the covers a little toned and lightly stained, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed. Binding sound. The contents generally fine, just some light marks within, minor.
The New Zealand-born Scottish author’s second major work, often dubbed ‘the Scottish Finnegans Wake’, and for good reason; though the narrative does bizarrely begin to land with a bit of rhythm, the syntax and Scots verbiage renders this supremely experimental novel a challenge. Nevertheless, the work was lauded as a genuine tour-de-force in wordplay and a high point in Scottish Renaissance and, arguably, in modernism overall. The first edition is uncommon.