C. M. GRIEVE (i.e. 'Hugh MacDiarmid'). — Albyn; or Scotland and the Future.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 'To-day and To-morrow' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 95pp + xix publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's paper-covered boards with printed spine and title labels. The boards lightly dust soiled and with a touch of light wear to the spine ends and corner tips. The free endpapers toned, and with some spotting to the half-title, title page, occasional margins, and to two or three concluding leaves. Small Calcutta dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A nice crisp copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is lightly marked and dust soiled, with several centimetres of loss from the base of the spine panel and several further tiny fractions of loss from the head of the spine panel and from the corner tips, and two small areas of internal taped reinforcement. An early MacDiarmid publication: an optimistic analysis of Scotland's future., Good, Good