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1926 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper
The first edition.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To Matthew Anderson, with the author's compliments, C. M. Grieve, Liverpool, 24/7/31'.
In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
A long poem written in Scots by Hugh M'Diarmid, the pen-name of Christopher Murray Grieve.
The poem is told in the form of a monologue with a slight theme of stream of consciousness. M'Diarmid references at contemporary cultural and political events, such as Isadora Duncan, and the 1926 General Strike.
Bookplate of D. B. Anderson to the front paste down.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with a few light marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn with some small closed tears and chip, a larger tear to the head of the front joint. Spine is a little age-toned. Light marks and a little rubbing to the dust wrapper, including a couple of light tide marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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