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Hugh MacDiarmid (Signed & Inscribed to fellow-poet Thurso Berwick) Uncanny Scot
Hugh MacDiarmid (Signed & Inscribed to fellow-poet Thurso Berwick) Uncanny Scot
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The Uncanny Scot
By Hugh MacDiarmid
SIGNED & INCRIBED BY MACDIARMID
"Signed for my friend, fellow-scot, fellow-republican and fellow-poet and good fellow. Hugh MacDiarmid" . . . although not referred to by name the person MacDiarmid inscribes this book to is none other than Morris Blythman aka Thurso Berwick.
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1968. First Edition. Hardback with dust jacket. With 176 pages.
CONDITION
A good first edition. The dust jacket is price-clipped but otherwise good. The boards and spine are good. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Overall a good first edition.
Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (/məkˈdɜːrmɪd/; Scots: [hju mək'djɑr.mɪd]), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxist–Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He would subsequently stand as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and Communist Party of Great Britain (1964).
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