Glasgow: Caledonian Press, N.d. [1952]

8vo, pp. 40. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to front panel. Illustrated dust jacket, photographic portrait of the book's subject to front panel. Small abrasion to front board, offsetting to endpapers, pencilled name and address to rear endpaper. A very good copy in a very good, lightly marked dust jacket, with just a little loss to spine ends.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Uys Krige with admiration from Hugh MacDiarmid'. Foreword by R.E. Muirhead.
MacDiarmid and the South African novelist and poet Uys Krige [1910-1987] were both active in the anti-apartheid movement.

Scarce inscribed.