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To Circumjack Cencrastus or The Curly Snake
Hugh MDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve]
1930
William Blackwood and Sons : Edinburgh and London
8" by 5"
[8], 206, [1]pp.
SUMMARY
The first edition in second issue binding of this collection of poetry by Hugh MDiarmid, inscribed and signed by the author.
Authors Presentation Copy,First Edition,Publishers Original Binding,Signed,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Near Fine
This book weighs0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The first edition of this work, in the second issue light blue cloth binding. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.
Gift inscription from the author, signed to front free endpaper Hugh MacDiarmid and dated December 1943.
Collection of poems by Christopher Murray Grieve published under pen name Hugh MDiarmid. A provocative anthology attacking the self-satisfied and complacent in modern thought and literature using vivid imagery of its lyric interludes.
Hugh MacDiarmid was a Scottish poet, journalist and essayist known as one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance, highly influential on Scottish culture and politics.
CONDITION
In the original publishers full cloth binding. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped with some loss to wraps and spine, spotting to wraps, lightly darkened to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge affecting only first and last few leaves, pages otherwise bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Near Fine Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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