David Martin - Battlefields and Girls - First Edition

MARTIN, David (1915-1997).

Battlefields and Girls.

Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1942.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.34. Publisher's wraps, integral dust-jacket designed by Jozef Herman, with printed price of 6d to upper, stapled twice. Featuring an introduction by Beatrix Lehmann and a dust-jacket blurb by Hugh MacDiarmid.

Paperstock toned, staples rusted, some very slight wear to covers with the spine rubbed. Scarce. Near fine.

A collection of anti fascist poems with the royalties destined to "aid soldiers of Democracy who fought in Spain, now in French Concentration Camps".