Bloodhunt
First Edition:
BLOODHUNT | [ornamental horizontal line] | NEIL M. GUNN | [space] | FABER AND FABER LTD | 24 Russell Square | London
Collation:
[A] (8), B - I (8), No J, K - Q (8), 128 leaves.
pp. [1] - [2] blank; p. [3] BLOODHUNT; p. [4] By the same author; p. [5] Title page; p. [6] [ital] Publisher's and Printer's notices: First published in MCMLII; p. [7] For R.W.; p. [8] blank; pp. 9 - 250 Text; pp. [251] - [256] blank.
5" x 7 1/2". Bound in red cloth, spine stamped in gold:
BLOOD | HUNT | [ornament] | NEIL M. | GUNN | [space] | FABER
Other Editions:
Souvenir Press | London | 1984
Walker | New York | 1987
Birlinn | Edinburgh | 2007
North House Press | Rogart | 2026
The novel was dramatised for radio and broadcast 28th. April, 1958.
Notes:
A letter from Faber, 23rd. July 1965, confirmed that the copyright had reverted to Gunn.
The R.W. of the dedication is Robert Wotherspoon.
The action of the book is set in the countryside near Brae, Gunn's home from 1938 - 1948.
Some of the themes explored in this novel were foreshadowed in the short story "Birdsong at Evening": The Cornhill | London | September 1926 | pp. 298 - 314.
An exciting thriller of murder and a manhunt. Against that background Gunn introduces us to some memorable people, archetypal characters, and explores motivation and morality in more than purely legal terms.