The Ecliptic.

Published by Faber and Faber, 1930

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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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FIRST EDITION, faint spots to margin of half-title, pp. 77, small 4to, original plain card with integral blue dustwrapper, this browned to backstrip and borders with a touch of rubbing and creasing at extremities, very good. In much nicer state than commonly met with. Along with Auden's 'Poems' and Philip Perceval Graves' 'The Pursuit', Macleod's debut was announced by the publisher as 'the best work of coming men'. It was recommended to Eliot at Faber by Ezra Pound, who maintained a correspondence with the emergent author and referred to the work in 'Canto CXIV'; Basil Bunting was among its other admirers. It is a work of considerable ambition and difficulty, based around the Signs of the Zodiac. The author had attended Balliol College, where he was a friend and contemporary of Graham Greene; his later work, published under the name Adam Drinan, located him in the Scottish Renaissance, whilst he also worked as a BBC announcer and theatre producer.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Ecliptic.
Author
Macleod (Joseph Gordon)
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Publication year
1930
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Modern First Edition

Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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