The White Hour
First Edition:
THE WHITE HOUR | and other stories | [ornament] | NEIL M. GUNN | [space] | FABER AND FABER LTD | 24 Russell Square | London
Collation:
[A] (80, B - I (8), No J, K - S (8), 144 leaves.
pp. [1] - [2] blank; p. [3] The White Hour; p. [4] By the same author; p. [5] Title page; p.[6] [ital] Publisher's and Printer's notices: First published in MCML; pp. 7 - 8 Contents; p. 9 Note and acknowledgements; p. [10] blank; pp. 11 - 285 Text; pp. [286] - [288] blank.
5" x 7 1/2". Bound in beige cloth, spine stamped in gold:
THE | WHITE | HOUR | [ornament] | NEIL M. | GUNN | [space] | FABER
Contents:
| 1) The Chariot | 2) Whistle for Bridge |
| 3) Hill Fever | 4) The Old Man |
| 5) Paper Boats | 6) Symbolical # * |
| 7) Blaeberries # * | 8) The Tax Gatherer |
| 9) The White Hour # | 10) The Tree |
| 11) On the Stone | 12) The Black Woollen Gloves |
| 13) Dance of the Atoms | 14) Love's Dialectic |
| 15) The Mirror | 16) The Listener's Tale |
| 17) The Clock | 18) Such Stuff as Dreams * |
| 19) Pure Chance | 20) Down to the Sea * |
| 21) The Ghost's Story | 22) Montrose Rides By |
| 23) Henry Drake Goes Home | 24) The Telegram |
| 25) Half-Light * | 26) The Moor * |
Other Editions:
Richard Drew | Glasgow | 1990 (With a foreword by Dairmid Gunn)
Chambers | Edinburgh | 1990
I have been unable to trace previous publications of "The Ghost's Story" and "The Telegram" although from correspondence it would appear that the former was offered to the B.B.C. (3rd. June 1940) for possible broadcast use, but was declined. It seems to have been published in a Danish magazine, "Magasinet", around August 1956. The latter later appeared in: Modern Scottish Short Stories | F.Urquhart and G.Gordon, eds. | Hamish Hamilton | London | 1978 | pp. [1] - 6. ["The Ghost's Story" appeared in: Ken, A Book of Fact & Fiction | Scoop Books Limited | Glasgow | n.d. | pp. 52 - 59. "With acknowledgements to the Editor of S.M.T. and Scottish Country Life Magazine"].