Lot 245
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Mitchell, J. Leslie [pseudonym: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935]
Spartacus

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
£688
Description
London: Jarrolds, 1934. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, binding rubbed and worn, text-block toned, a few spots and marks, front free endpaper removed, dust jacket chipped, spotted and toned, damp-stain to spine-panel, front panel abraded
Footnote
Note: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'For C. M. Grieve, Hugh MacDiarmid, from Jas Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon' on the title-page. A superb Scottish Renaissance association copy. Spartacus is considered the best novel written by Mitchell, author of the Scots Quair trilogy, under his real name. He and MacDiarmid were co-authors of The Scottish Scene, published in 1934.
