Hidden Doors

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Stokoe Code: A42
Publisher: Porpoise Press
Place: Edinburgh
Date: July 1930

The first edition bears the imprint 1929 but the publishers advise that the work was not issued until the following July.

First Edition:
HIDDEN DOORS | NEIL M. GUNN | [wavy horizontal line] | [space] | [ornament] | [wavy horizontal line] | EDINBURGH 1929 | THE PORPOISE PRESS

Collation:
[A] (8), B - I (8), No J, K - O (8), 112 Leaves.
p. [1] HIDDEN DOORS | TO MY WIFE; p. [2] blank; p. [3] Title page; p. [4] FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1929 BY | THE PORPOISE PRESS | 133A GEORGE STREET | EDINBURGH, C | [space} | Publisher's and Printer's notices, and acknowledgements: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1929; p. [5] Contents; p. [6] blank; pp. 7 - 221 Text; pp. [222} - {224} blank.
5" x 7 1/2". Bound in orange cloth, spine stamped in black: HIDDEN | DOORS | [line] | GUNN | [space] | PORPOISE Front board: HIDDEN DOORS | NEIL M. GUNN

Contents:
A collection of the undermentioned short stories;

   1) The Sea
   2) Visioning
   3) Such stuff as Dreams *
   4) Half-Light *
   5) Blaeberries * #
   6) Symbolical * #
   7) The Clock
   8) Down to the Sea *
   9) The Uncashed Cheque
   10) The White Hour * #
   11) Gentlemen
   12) The Moor *
   13) Between Headlands
   14) Hidden Doors
   15) The Sleeping Bins

# Also appear in Storm and Precipice, 1942.
* Also appear in The White Hour, 1950.

Other Editions:
An extract from "Down to the Sea" comprising part of p. 112 appeared in the 1994 Caithness Calendar (May) | North of Scotland Newspapers | Wick | 1993
An extract from "Down to the Sea" comprising part of p. 109 appeared in the 1994 Caithness Calendar (October) | North of Scotland Newspapers | Wick | 1993
An extract from "Half-Light" comprising part of p. 50 appeared in the 1994 Caithness Calendar (December) | North of Scotland Newspapers | Wick | 1993

Notes:
I have been unable to trace a previous publication of the short story "Gentlemen", although it was offered to The Northern Review, circa 1924, but was not used.

Details from C J L Stokoe's Bibliography