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Byre Books book shop, Wigtown, Galloway. Scotland.









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Ballads and Ballad-Plays

Price:  £5.00

Hampden, John
A wide selection of traditional and more modern ballads. Rather shabby, but good reading copy p269
Thomas Nelson & Sons

Greenwood Tales : Stories of Robin Hood and his Merry Men

Price:  £8.00

King, Dorothy
Illustrated by William Stobbs. Good ( corners bumped, some age spotting, text clean and clear) in Good DJ (chipped, price clipped, light markings). p123
Blackie

Here's the Year

Price:  £7.00

Watkins, Peter and Hughes, Erica
Calendar customs and traditions. Neat name to ffep, o/w VG in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ. p128
Julia MacRae Books

Hero Tales from the British Isles

Price:  £15.00

Picard, Barbara Leonie
From Arthur to Cuchulain, Finn MacCool to Taliesin, and other less well known legendary heroes. Slight wear to cover, much age-mottling throughout, o/w VG in DJ that is edge-worn and slightly marked but generally sound, not price-clipped. p159
Edmund Ward

History of Christian Names Vol II

Price:  £15.00

Yonge, Charlotte M
A discussion on the origin of names from Celtic, Teutonic and Slavonic myth, legend and history. Dark red cloth, faded and starting to split at spine edges, corners bumped, some age-mottling, generally VG p504
Parker, Son, and Bourn

Prehistoric Britain

Price:  £5.00

Hawkes, Jaquetta and Christopher
A summary of Britain's earliest years. Good p134
Pelican

Stonehenge

Price:  £5.00

Atkinson, R J C
A clear account of Stonehenge and the excavations in the '50s Good p221
Pelican

Town & Country Fare & Fable

Price:  £5.00

Pike, Mary Ann
Local foods and recipes entwined with local customs and stories. VG in VG DJ p192
David and Charles










Byre Books book shop, Wigtown, Galloway. Scotland.