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Third edition, second impression, inscribed ‘To my friend D.G. Bridson, With renewed thanks and every high regard, from Hugh MacDiarmid, 15/7/60.’ A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle (first published 1926) is often considered MacDiarmid’s masterwork.

Arthur Currie (b. 1922) was overseer of bindings at Oliver & Boyd, executed design bindings for Hamilton and Duval in the 1970s, and taught at Napier College in the 1980s. Signed bindings by Currie are very scarce on the market. See NLS Bdg.s.942 for a related binding on another work by MacDiarmid (sold at Lyon & Turnbull in 2010).

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