Lot 145

Grieve, Christopher Murray - "Hugh MacDiarmid"

8 volumes, (3 signed or inscribed) including

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT

£275

Description

First Hymn to Lenin and other Poems. Unicorn Press, 1931. Number 23 of 50 large paper copies, this copy not signed, black half morocco with patterned boards and endpapers, slipcase worn; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1953. 8vo, wrappers, a little worn; In Memoriam James Joyce. Glasgow, 1955. 4to, inscribed "To Barbara & Ernest with love from Valda and Hugh MacDiarmid, 1955", original cloth Francis George Scott. Edinburgh, 1955, 8vo, wrappers; The ugly birds without wings. Edinburgh, 1962, wrappers; Complete Poems. 1978. 2 volumes, 8vo, number 30 of 50 copies bound in buckram, signed in volume 1, slipcase a bit worn; Scott, Alexander. The MacDiarmid Makars 1923-1972. Preston, 1972. 4to, signed on title by MacDiarmid, original wrappers very slightly discoloured (8)