The West Wind of Love, Being Volume III of The Four Winds of Love, Book I

v, 338pp. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt motif and gilt lettering to spine (boards slightly worn, lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, mild mark on top edge of text block). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Language Tuition Centre Student's Library stamp on front free endpaper, no other library markings. 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 West Wind of Love, first published in 1940, is the third in the series. 8vo