Edinburgh: The Chalmers Press, 1940. Second Issue. Bound as a hardcover but retaining the original orange/yellow printed wraps. 28 pages. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ROBERT G. SUTHERLAND (Robert Garioch) TO THE VERSO OF TITLE PAGE "A memento of our firewatching, Robert G. Sutherland" ALSO INCLUDED IS A LETTER FROM GARIOCH AT HIS HOME IN EDINBURGH TO A MISS ROSS - THE LETTER IS DATED 16.7.41 This scarce book – effectively self-published by Robert Garioch – was originally published in 'late January or early February 1940', and this second, corrected edition appeared a couple of months later', although the date of the first edition is given as 'December 1939' in Christopher Whyte's edition of Dain do Eimhir (2003). The copy referred to here in this sale is the second edition The second issue had a number of corrections, and was given the slighly revised title of '17 Poems for Sixpence'. It contained five poems from ‘Dàin do Eimhir’ (III, IV, XIV, XV and XXIX), and Robert Garioch’s Scots version of Dàin III. The volume was reviewed in The New Alliance for June/July 1940. The anonymous reviewer commented: ‘One would like to think that this is an epoch-making book…’