Broken Record: Reminiscences
London: Briswood, 1934. First Edition, First Issue. Small octavo; 208pp. A Very Good copy of the author's autobiography in publisher's green-blue cloth, titles to spine and author's name to front board yellow, top edge yellow. Laid in is a May 25th, 1934 typed letter (on William Jackson Books Limited) to Housatonic Book Shop, Salisbury Conn. advising '... We are sending you a copy of this work by today's mail as per your order. A Mr. C.M. Grieve has objected to a certain passage in the book and all copies were called back to have this passage deleted. We managed to keep your copy and so you have the real first edition.' Campbell was a controversial and influential South African poet and the deleted passages reflected his decades-long feud with Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. Rare thus. Item #22970
Price: $200.00