MACDIARMID, Hugh.

A Lap of Honour.

[London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1967].

Large 8vo, pp. 68, [2]; publisher’s red cloth, yellow dustjacket printed in red and blue-green; a very good copy in a very good jacket (a few short tears, spine dusty).

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First edition, published to coincide with MacDiarmid’s seventy-fifth birthday.

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