Scottish Eccentrics

by Hugh Macdiarmid, Christopher Murray Grieve

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. Scottish Biography FIRST EDITION. Octavo 26 x 16cm , pp. 2 x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of Scotch characters: Lord George Gordon; Sir Thomas Urquhart; William McGonagall; James Hogg; Prof. John Wilson; William Berry; Thomas

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