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1. 'THE BROAD BACKED HIPPOPOTAMUS..' Ink and acrylic on card and paper;
2. ‘THE HIPPO’S FEEBEL STEPS MAY ERR...' Ink and acrylic on card and paper;
3. 'THE 'POTAMUS CAN NEVER REACH...' Ink and acrylic on card and paper;
4. ‘AT MATING TIME THE HIPPO’S VOICE...' Ink and acrylic on card and paper;
5. ‘THE HIPPOPTAMUS’S DAY...' Lithograph, with hand written dedication in ink, 'To the Gordon MacPherson 1 Sept 1976, the year of the Great Heat and start of the New Depression./As a momento of the original, commissioned and owned by him, which is on it's way from Alasdair Gray: not yet! Gray adds in October 23, 2003';
6. ‘I SAW THE ’POTAMUS TAKE WING..' Ink and acrylic on card and paper;
7. 'HE SHALL BE WASHED AS WHITE AS SNOW' Ink and acrylic on card and paper (7)

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