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Critical Works on James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Bibliography by William K Malcolm

The Grassic Gibbon Centre regularly updates the following bibliography of writings about James Leslie Mitchell/ Lewis Grassic Gibbon.  The Centre is keen to learn of additions or alterations to be made to the database, and would greatly appreciate further details of sources of  significant references.  The Centre also aims to build up an archive of criticism; photocopies of new or missing items would again be greatly appreciated. 

The database was originally created in August, 2000 and remains the copyright of The Grassic Gibbon Centre. 

The foundations for the bibliography were laid by a series of articles published in

The Bibliotheck, particularly the ground-breaking inventory published by Geoffrey Wagner in 1956. 

The articles concerned are : 

Wagner, Geoffrey, 'James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon', in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.1, 1956, pp.3-21 

Aitken, W R, 'Further Notes on the Bibliography of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon', in The Bibliotheck, 1, no.2, 1957, pp.34-35 

Young, Douglas F, 'James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions I', in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.169-173 

Kidd, James, 'James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Chronological Checklist: Additions II', in The Bibliotheck, 5, no.5, 1969, pp.174-7 

Malcolm, William K, 'James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon Checklist:

Additions III', in The Bibliotheck, 11, no.6, 1983, pp.149-156 

An up to date collation of primary and secondary references is to be found in :

Whyte, Hamish, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon : A Bibliographical Checklist', in A Flame in the Mearns - Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Centenary Celebration, edited by Margery Palmer McCulloch and Sarah M Dunnigan, Association for Scottish Literary Studies Occasional Papers: Number 13, ASLS, Glasgow, 2003, pp.157-75 

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