Complete in 2 volumes. Volume one is a second printing; volume two is a first edition, first printing. 1949 and 1945. Two matching volumes. ii, 312pp & 302pp Cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and publisher's motif on front. 8vo. Boards a little rounded at spine tips and corners. Both internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring a previous owner's stamp on the front free endpaper in volume one. Book two in its original worn and chapped dust jacket, sunned on spine, with small portions of backstrip missing at head and heel of spine. Dust jacket 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 North Wind of Love concludes the novel sequence.
