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A DINNER WITH THE DEAD and other Stories
Edition: First edition
Edinburgh: Serif Books, 1947. 12mo, stuff card covers with attached light blue jacket. Page edges yellowed; jacket has mild soiling, lightly yellowed spine, front cover a little bowed, VG otherwise. First book from this publisher. A secondary issue, trimmed down, the jacket lettering on front cover touching the fore edge. 15 short stories, some criminous. In Hubin. Scottish author. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40933More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A LAP OF HONOUR (inscribed)
Edition: First printing
London: MacGbbon & Kee, 1967. Red boards. pp (69), [3]. Fine copy. Jacket has a small chip and nick at head of spine, VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author to an academic, Biggar, Sept., 1967". Poems publisheed to mark his 75th birthday. Includes a glossary of Scots words.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49190More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A POLITCAL SPEECH. A Transcription from a recording taken at the 1320 Club Symposium Glasgow University, 6th April 1968.
Edition: First printing
Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 15 pp, stapled, in black & white photographic card covers. Fine copy. One word on page 12 is corrected by the publishers with a small printed slip pasted over. The speech was about Scottish independence. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 13138More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A SCOTS HAIRST: Essays and Short Stories. Edited and introduced by Ian S. Munro
Edition: First printing
London: Hutchinson, 1967. Octavo, blue boards. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, very light yellowing to free endpapers; else VG+, in VG bright jacket, flap price intact.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 34555More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
A SPORTSMAN'S WANDERINGS. With 4 Colotype plates and 11 other illustrations from author's drawings and photographs
Edition: First US issue
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Octavo, red cloth. pp xii, 298, (2) + 4 collotype plates with tissue guards and 11 b&w plates. VG+ clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Made from sheets of the 1919 UK edition, which was titled WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES. Hunting and fishing in South Africa (elephant and lions), Scotland (salmon and grouse). Iceland, Norway, and more.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36406More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
AMUSEMENTS IN MINSTRELSY
Edition: First printing
Glasgow: Porteous Brothers, 1880. Octavo, original red bevel edge decorated in blind, gilt lettered, all edges gilt. Pp (viii), 176 + frontispiece illustration ("Death of the Bruce") and one other drawing (steeple with clock face in graveyard in Rutherglen). Spine lightly sunned, with narrow dark stain at lower end; covers have slight darkening and light spotting; tiny ink owner name and two pencil names at front; small abrasion to lower margin of rear pastedown; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, text paper fresh. Verse by this Glasgow author, his Preface giving his address as 327 Dalmarnock Road. COPAC locates at NLS and BL only.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39326More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
AN ANGUS PARISH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Dundee: Printed by John Leng, 1904. Small octavo, maroon cloth gilt, brown endpapers. 200 pp, index. Four plates inserted. Slight rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; occasional light soil spots in text; VG tight copy otherwise, no owner names, cover gilt bright. Auchterhouse Parish, Scotland.
Condition: Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 20431More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
BETTY GRIER. With frontispiece by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A.
Toronto / London & Edinburgh: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart / W.& R. Chambers. Canadian issue, from the third printing of Jan., 1916 (first was Nov., 1915, 2nd Dec.) Octavo, red cloth lettered in black and gilt, tan endpapers. pp (2), (262) + colour frontispiece. Book a little leaned, with light spotting to covers; browning to page edges and free endpapers; ink owner inscription at front; slight foxing to first three leaves; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. A novel set in Scotland. Waugh was from Thornhill in Dumfriesshire. Scots dialect.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39626More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BONNIE SCOTLAND. Painted by Sutton Palmer. Described by A.R. Hope Moncrieff
London: A. & C. Black, 1912. Third printing (first was in 1904). Blue pictorial cloth stamped in brown, yellow and white, gilt lettered, top edges gilt. pp (xii), 253 + 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Mild wear to spine corners and outer corners; small bump to upper outer corner of front cover; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; bookstore rubber stamp to lower inner corner of front pastedown (Acres of Books, Long Beach, CA); else a VG copy, no owner names. Inman 71. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 26810More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
CALENDAR OF THE LAING CHARTERS A.D. 854-1837 Belonging to the University of Edinburgh
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 30753More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
CAMPBELL; or, the Scottish Probationer. A novel
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39323More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
CRY TO THE MOMENT
Edition: First printing
Burlington, Ontario: Perfect Pages of Burlington, 1989. Card covers (not issued in hardcover). pp (10], (425). Neat tape repair to gutter between the 4th and 5 leaves, vertical spine creases from reading, else a VG clean copy. An historical novel of the Orkneymen and Scots who in the early 19th century came to Canada to settle on the the shores of Hudson's Bay and in Upper Canada.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 12882More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Diaries of a Dying Man. Edited by Alexander Scott
London: Chambers. Second edition, adding a new Preface by Alexander Scott (first ed. was in 1988). Octavo, black boards. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, else fine in near fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35005More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
DOOM CASTLE: a romance
Toronto, Edinburgh & London: Copp, Clark / Blackwood, c1901. (First?) Canadian issue. vi, 322 pp. Bound in gaudy floral diagonally ribbed printed cloth depicting red poppies and a brown leather spine titled and ruled in gilt and spelling the author's name "Munroe" [sic] , with floral ornament and no publisher's imprint. Rebound ? Spine very slightly sunned, with minor rubbing; small tan spot to fore edges; small Stratford, ON, store stamp in lower corner of front free endpaper; else fine, no owner names. First published Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. This, the important Scottish author's third novel, took ts inspiration from Dundarave Castle on Loch Fyne. A gothic tale, it also explores the hopelessness of the Jacobite cause.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39622More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
EARL RÖGNVALD and his Forebears, or Glimpses of Life in Early Norse Times in Orkney and Shetland
Edition: First printing
London: Unwin, 1896. 12mo, green cloth decorated in blind, gilt lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. pp 260, (6, ads). Spine a little darkened, text paper lightly toned, else a VG clean, tight & unworn copy, no owner names. Ms Spence was from the Shetlands. She taught school in New Zealand in the 1880s before returning home.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35280More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND. In two parts. With references, sectional heads, synoptical table of contents and translations of the numerous Greek, Latin, and French quotations, etc. By the Rev. G. N. Wright
London: William Tegg, 1850. Octavo, pp [2], (xii), 602, [4]. Contemporary brown calf with gilt and blind decorative borders to sides, spine with four raised bands, black label, gilt ornament, marbled page edges and endpapers. Arms of Marishal College, Aberdeen. Binding by A. Brown, Aberdeen. Rubbing in panels of spine, else fine, joints and hinges not cracked, no owner names. Pagination is continuous for the two parts. Stewart was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician best known as a popularizer of the Scottish Enlightenment, especially through his lectures at Edinburgh University. Nice copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43370More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
FRAGMENTS
Aberdeen, Scotland: Privately printed (Greyfriars Press), 1905. 12mo, hardcover, purple cloth stamped in gilt, dark grey endpapers. [48] pp + frontispiece portrait. Spine faded with mild light wear to tips; partial crack to front inner hinge; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Posthumously published verse by this Scottish (Cairnie, Aberdeenshire) author. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14579More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
GEORGE MacDONALD: Scotland's beloved story teller
Edition: First printing
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Faux leather spine and decorated boards, tartan endpapers. pp 400 + plates. Index. Lacking the rear free endpaper, just a little leaned, else fine. A very detailed study focusing on MacDonald's spiritual side. Including useful checklists of first and subsequent editions.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50539More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
GREENVOE
Edition: First US edition.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Octavo, black cloth. Tanning to inner margins of pastedowns from binding materials; sticker scar on front free endpaper; else fine, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has slight sunning to red spine titpe, nicks to spine tips, sticker scar to blank top margin of front flap; VG otherwise. First novel of this Orkney author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33000More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
HISTORY OF MONTROSE WATER SUPPLY, from its commencement in 1720 to 1914
Montrose (Scotland): Montrose Town Council, 1914. Octavo, green cloth. pp (4), 208. Cloth crease to upper spine; front cover bowed from damp, with very light damp marks in margins; offset yellowing to free endpapers; 1951 ink inscription at front; else a VG+ copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39170More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00