ONE FOOT IN EDEN

First edition, first printing. Original burgundy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed. There is heavy offsetting to the endpapers and a little light spotting to the prelims, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and spine toned dustwrapper which has light spotting to the rear panel and a long tear to the rear spine fold which has been repaired with tape to the underside. Not price-clipped (10s 6d on the front flap).

In 1901 when Muir was 14 he moved with his family from Orkney to Glasgow, an event which had a great impact on the young poet. Muir came to see Orkney - then relatively untouched by the industrial revolution - as a symbolic Eden and the industrial city of Glasgow as Hell, a theme he would revisit many times in his poetry.