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MACDIARMID, Hugh [pseudonym of GRIEVE, Christopher Murray] (1892-1978).

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1926. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 90 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket moderately rubbed and chipped to edges, with heavy toning to spine. Very good. MacDiarmid's second 'Synthetic Scots' collection, preceding his most famous work 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926). Item #60880

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