Author: Hugh M'Diarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve]
Title: To Circumjack Cencrastus or the Curly Snake
Description: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in second issue binding of this collection of poetry by Hugh M'Diarmid, inscribed and signed by the author. 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 M'Diarmid. 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.  In the original publisher's 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. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.

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