The South Wind of Love (Books One and Two – 2 Volumes) (The Four Winds of Love)

Complete in 2 volumes. 1st thus. Two matching volumes. viii, 420pp & iv, 416pp Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and publisher’s motif on front. Cloth a little rounded at spine tips, volume two has a short, mild warp on front. Both internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring a previous owner’s stamp on the front free endpaper in each volume. Both volumes in their original worn and torn dust jackets, sunned on spines, volume one has a portion missing from spine and volume two is price clipped. Both jackets now protected in archival-quality mylar wrapper. The Four Winds of Love, published in six volumes between 1937 and 1945 and containing almost 1 million words, is one of the most ambitious Scottish novels of the twentieth century, an enormous historical odyssey which anatomizes the politics of peripheral nationalism both throughout Europe and in Britain, again through semi-autobiographical character development.” (Gavin Wallace). The South Wind of Love, first published in 1937, is the second in the series. .