RARE First Edition SIGNED By Louis Macniece'I Crossed The Minch' 1938

This is a rare First Edition. Rarely Signed; in blue ink by Louis Macniece. Includes 8 drawings by Nancy Sharp.

Published by Longmans Green, London 1938. Louis MacNeice and his friend Nancy visited the Hebrides. A fascinating social historical document of Scottish rural life in the late 1930s.

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907. Educated in England (Marlborough and Oxford), he lectured in Classics in Birmingham and London. In 1941 he joined the BBC Features Department and was responsible for many classic productions, including his own radio play The Dark Tower (music by Benjamin Britten). He died in 1963 while recording sound-effects in a cave for the BBC. Book has age related wear namely light splashes visible to front/back cover board.

Spine threaded and becoming detached. Please see photographs which add to part of the description.

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