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A Braird o Thristles - Scots Poems Price: £10.00
Young, Douglas - illus George Bain 12th in the series Poetry Scotland. Covers sunned, name to ffep, pages a little yellowed, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p56 William MacLellan

A Day Estivall - in honour of Helena Mennie Shire Price: £8.00
Gardner-Medwin, Alisoun and Williams, Janet Hadley eds. Essays on the Music, Poetry and History of Scotland and England and Poems previously unpublished VG p184 Aberdeen University Press

A Deadly Deception Price: £20.00
Davis, Margaret Thomson VG in VG DJ. Signed by the author on the half title page. p225 B & W

A Drink for the Bridge Price: £25.00
Knight, Alanna Signed by the author. VG in good DJ. p186 Macmillan

A Future for Scottish Higher Education Price: £5.00
Crawford, Ronald ed. The state of Scotland's distinctive further education system - essays to inform the Dearing Inquiry. With contributions by John Arbuthnott, Andrew Miller, Sir Graeme Davies, Sir Graham Hills, Alistair MacFarlane, John Laver, Sir Stewart Sutherland, Gordon Kirk, Sir John Daniel, Richard Shaw, and John Sizer. VG p224 COSHEP

A Guide to the Scottish Legal System Price: £6.00
anthology Undated - 'a collection of essays for the ordinary man on the country's legal system' VG in chipped, worn and mended DJ p99 J C Cousland and Sons

A Lot of Hot Air - a new collection of prose and poems Price: £5.00
Lanark Writers VG p116

A Merchant's Tale - the life of William Hay (1787 - 1858) Price: £8.00
Rose, Margaret A novelisation of the life of a well-known son of Shetland VG p149 Shetland Times Ltd

A Storm from Paradise Price: £6.00
Hood, Stuart VG, name on ffep, in very slightly scratched but genwerally VG DJ, not price-clipped p188 Carcanet

A Wee Book o Derval Poems Price: £5.00
Darvel Heritage Group Verses chiefly in the Scottish dialect, celebrating this Ayrshire village. Stapled booklet, good. p28 Darvel Heritage Trust

Abbeys Hold Dark Corners Price: £5.00
Crole, Robert Undated - 2000? A murder mystery set in the Scottish Borders. Name to ffep, o/w good. p226 Alba Publishing

After the Watergaw - new poetry from Scotland inspired by water Price: £10.00
Davidson, Robert ed. Over eighty contemporary Scottish poets have contributed poems on the subject of water for this fine anthology. VG p118 Scottish Cultural Press

An Exile in Eden Price: £25.00
McConnell, Margaret S Signed by the author. VG, pages somewhat yellowed, in worn, sound, but price-clipped DJ p188 Mills and Boon

Anecdotes, Poems and Village Tales - volume V Price: £10.00
Dennison, John Privately printed. Initialled by the author to the half title page. VG p63

August Morning on Tweed - selected poems Price: £5.00
Bolton, Deric Ex-lib, missing ffep, good. p70 Galliard

Avoiding the Gods Price: £5.00
Abbot, Ian Fine poems. Covers a little worn, good. p64 Chapman

Beyond the Borders Price: £35.00
Derwent, Lavinia Signed by the author, with a dedication, on the half-title page VG in VG DJ p168 Hutchinson

Burns Chronicle 1981 Price: £5.00
journal Fourth series, volume VI. VG - cover a little marked, name to title page. p227 The Burns Federation

Burns Chronicle 1982 Price: £5.00
journal Fourth series, volume VII. VG p237 The Burns Federation

Burns Chronicle 1982 Price: £5.00
journal Fourth series, volume VII. Good - small tear to front cover p237 The Burns Federation

Burns Chronicle 1985 Price: £5.00
journal Fourth series, volume IX. VG p256 The Burns Federation

But Price: £5.00
Donovan, Anne Undated, but recent. A moving short story by the author of Hieroglyphs and Buddha Da, on disability and caring. Stapled booklet, cover a little worn and marked, internally VG p14 Artlink/Scottish Book Trust

Caledonians Price: £10.00
McBain, Hugh Undated. A contemporay novel. VG p316 Jordanbooks

Carmina Gadelica - Ortha nan Gaidheal - hymns and incantations - Vol II Price: £50.00
Carmichael, Alexander Volume two only of this classic collection, with Gaelic text facing the English translation and decorative initial letters. Red cloth a little worn and marked, gilt on top, red eps, no inscriptions, some age-spotting throughout, clean, tight and sound, generally VG, no DJ. p381 Oliver and Boyd

Celtic Studies - essays in memory of Angus Matheson 1912-1962 Price: £8.00
Carney, James and Greene, David eds. Reprint. The essays, on aspects of Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history, are by Somhairle MacGhill-Eathain, J W Bannerman, Karl Hj. Borgstrom, James Carney, Nora K Chadwick, David Greene, Donald G Howells, Kenneth Jackson, Terence M'Caughey, Kenneth Macdonald, Nessa Ni Sheaghdha, Brian O Cuiv, Mairin O Daly, Magne Oftedal, A O'Sullivan, E J Rowlands, Derick S Thomson and R L Thomson. VG in edge-worn, price-clipped DJ. p182 Routledge & Kegan Paul

Chapman 106, 2005 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy Fearturing Alastair Reid, Magi Gibson, Gael Turnbull, Tom Leonard. Cover by Ian Hughes. VG p144 Chapman

Chapman 107 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Contributors include Edwin Morgan, Rody Gorman, Carl MacDougal. Eabhan Ni Shuilebhain, George Hardie, John Law, Rab Wilson, Dennis O'Donnell. The featured artist is Sheila Mullen. VG p144 Chapman

Chapman 108 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. The featured artist is Don McNeil, and the focus is on Scottish popular fiction, with an interview with Ian Rankin and a discussion of the work of Iain (M) Banks. Contributors include Neil MacNeil, Paula Jennings, Mark Gallagher, Morag McDowell, Clare Crossman, Edmund O'Connoor, Ian Rankin, Belinda Cooke, Alan McMunnigall, John Purser, Peter Snow, Ted Fink, Lynne Wycherley, George Pryde, Angela Howard, John Law, Peter Bromley, Don McNeil, Alice Walsh, Owen Gallagher, Andrew RC Hamilton, Jim C Wilson, Douglas Thompson , Robin Fulton. VG p144 Chapman

Chapman 109 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. In Praise of the Lyric Muse - Stewart Conn at 70. Also work by Meg Bateman, Tessa Ransford, Richard Price, Norman Kreitman among others. The featured artist is Anda Paterson. VG p144 Chapman

Chapman 20 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy, ed. Contains work by J F Hendry, T S Law, Lenman, Calder, Montgomerie, Neill, MacCaig, Popa, Joy Hendry and Cook. Stapled booklet, good p52 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 33 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Work by Elliot, Thomson, Neill, Graham, Lamont, McLay, Little, MacKinnon, Caird, Tannahill, Withers, Vettese, Craig, Rae, Morelle Smith and McCulloch Stapled booklet, good p56 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 35/36 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Issue devoted to The State of Scotland, with work by Bold, Riach, Gray, Herdman, Neill, Cameron, Kerevan, Black, Ransford, Gunn, Crighton Smith, Marroni, Murray, MacNeacail, Perrie, Ross, McMillan, Noble, Law, Mackay, Fox, Ogilvie, McSeveney, Sutton, Bruford, McGavin, Whyte, Stephen, Fletcher, Byatt, Hastie and Calder Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p120 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 38 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Contains work by Whyte (on Derick Thomson), Wilson, Cogswell, Humes, Drosdek, MacFhionnlaigh, Caimbeul, Pow, Barclay, Silver, Chadwick, Purves, Milne, Scott-Moncrieff, Campbell, MacPherson, Calder, Mitchison, Riach, Waszek, Noble, Murphy, Hendry. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p60 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 40 Price: £5.00
Hendy, Joy ed. With works by Rankin (on George Campbel Hay), Vettese, Rae, Evans, Macdonald, Mulrine, Hubbard, MacCaig, Murphy, Brown, Urquhart, Neill, Kerr, Macbeath, Ashton, Brackenbury, Morris, Pitman. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p80 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 41 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing, again, on Scots. With work by McLure, Hershaw, Black, Mackie, Graham, Herbert, Heill, Rae, Clegg, Purves, Blackhall, Somerville, Gunn, Murray, MacNeacail, Colder, Morrice, Mitchison, Crawford, Grinde, Ransford Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p84 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 43/44 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on Scottish Theatre. Works by Wright, Brennan, Neilson, McLellan (a one-act play, The Smugglers), Campbell (on McLellan), Mackenney, Farrell, Purdie, Mulgrew, Ashton, McMillan, Lockerbie, Munro, Peoples, Gallagher, MacMillan, Clifford, Leonard, MacAuley, Gunn, Downie, Quinan, Loughlin, Lochhead, Calder, Oliver, Simpson, Macdonald, Caimbeul, Mowat, Bowman, Holton and McManus. Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p184 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 45 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. With a special feature on Norman MacCaig. Works by Crawford, McWilliam, Crichton Smith, Conn, Ross, Mitchison, Warner Flintoff, Hamilton, McLellan, Glenday, Croshaw, Elphinstone, Jamieson, Burns, MacFhionnlaigh. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p84 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 46 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. With a special feature on William Montgomerie. Works by Morgan, MacWilliam, Pow, O'Sullivan, Giesekam, Cameron, Gilchrist, Urquhart, Oliphant, Sangster, Hubbard, Thomson, McCabe, Gladstone, Hendry Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p84 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 52 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Featuring J F Hendry, with works by Calder, Withers, MacNaughton, Galloway, Wegmuller, MacLean, Campbell, Thornton, Ransford, Robertson, Buchanan Smith. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p96 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 53 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Fucussing on William Soutar. Works by Soutar, Glen, MacGregor, Whyte, Aitken, Scott, Jackson, Webster, Wegmuller, MacLean, Mackenzie, Murray, Ross, Leckie. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p94 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 54 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Works by Crichton Smith, Dutton, Wilson, McDonald, Fyfe, MacKinnon, Simpson, Smith, Burns, Bryan, Stewart, Miller, Haynes, Bolton, MacLean, Sim, Silver, Davies, Mowat. Stapled booklet, good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p96 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 55/6 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on contemporary Soviet literature, and on the Scottish Claim of Right. Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p188 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 59 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on Kenneth White. Works by White, Martin, McManus, Footman, Macdonald, Pitman, Grieg, Wegmuller, Flett, MacThomais, de Paor, Ferguson, Purves, Buik, Blackhall, Pow. Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 61-2, Autumn 1990, International Festival of Writing Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Featuring international contributors to the festival of world writing, 'Writing Together', and work by Miroslav Holub, Eunice de Souza, Naomi Mitchison, Fleur Adcock, James Berry, Liz Lochhead, Kaiser Haq, Angus Calder, Ama Ata Aidoo, Rebecca Scott, James E McCormick, Mohamed Bashir, Martin Marroni, Mike Jenkins, Azouz Begag, Michael Henry, Raymond Tong, Gillean Somerville, Taban Lo Liyong, William Neill, William Hershaw, John Lyons, Saqi Farooqi, Shaheed Quaderi, Rafiq Azad, Dea Trier Morch, Marianne Larsen, Fletcher of Saltoun, John Robertson (on Fletcher), Jenny Robertson, Harry Smart, Marsha Prescod, Kole Omotoso, Jackie Kay, Lotte Kramer, Charles Stephens (on Robin Williamson), John Agard, aonghas macneacail, Hayden Murphy, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Colin Nicholson, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, John Greig, James Miller. VG p200 Chapman

Chapman 63 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Works by Gray, Vettese, Chadwick, Johnston, Hay, Land, O'Siadhail, McMillan, Porter, Whyte, Gilliland, Lingard, Hughes, Bendon, Caird, O'Rourke Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p96 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 64 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Celebrating Edwin Morgan. Works by Morgan, Watson, Crawford, Moffat, Calder, McHardy, McNeill, Gill, Morrice, McCabe, Steel, Neill, Herbert, Cockburn, Adamson, Macdonald, Garson. Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray. p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 65 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Scottish satire. Works by Macbeath, Fitt, Begg, Caird, Mackie, Annand, Fitzpatrick, Caimbeul, Crichton Smith, Martin, Crumley, Headdon, Wilson, Nairn, Calder, Murray, Warke, Friel, Purves. Good. Cover art by Dave Smith p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 66 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. In celebration of Sorley MacLean. Works by Welch, Bryan, Nic Gumaraid, Nicholson, Meade, Fortune, Ezekel, Crockatt, Rillie, MacCaig, Edward, Glen, Macbeath, Farquhar Linde, Neilson, Macnaughtan, Turnbull Good p Chapman Magazine

Chapman 72 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Works by Hamilton, Sangster, Higgins, Hughes, Orr, McCarron, Watt, McVey, Martin, Innes, Gariok, Thomas, Lim, Tanikawa, macneacail, Manson, Robertson, Cambridge, Lindsay, Daiches, Neill, Winwood, Steven, Gunn Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 73 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on Iain Crichton Smith. Works by Johnston, Allan, McCann, Malan, Crichton Smith, Nocholson, Whyte, Holton, Jifu, Zhiyuan, Craigie, Blackhall, Harrison, Calder, Duncan, McNeill, McIlroy Good. Cover art by Alasdair Gray p112 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 76 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. The Women's Forum - women in the Arts in Scotland. Works by Armstrong, Jones, Wilson, McKay, Cameron, NicGumaraid, Wellington, de Luca, Hills, Arnott, Thornton, Berman, Gillies, Humphries, Smith, Patching, ShoafEnge, Pearson, Robertson, Daiches Good. p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 77 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. The Arts under a Scottish Democracy/Women's Forum. Good p Chapman Magazine

Chapman 80 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy Focussing on Jessie Kesson Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 81 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on Elspeth Davie Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 82 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on Hamish Henderson. VG p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 83 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Considering Trocchi and MacDiarmid Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 84 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Appreciating George Mackay Brown Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 85 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed Considering the Stone of Scone Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 86 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed With works by Blackhall, Gunn, Meade and Flett, among others Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 87 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy On the state of British poetry. Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 88 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed Focussing on Catalunya Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 89 - 90 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed. Focussing on the composer Ronald Stevenson, and featuring Kenneth White and Alexander Moffat, among others. Tippex mark to cover and indes, o/w VG. p208 Chapman

Chapman 89-90 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed Meeting Ronald Stevenson Good p208 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 91 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed Continuing the debate on British Poetry. Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 92 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy The Irish issue Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 93 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy ed Scotland and Europe Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 94 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy 'Poetry at War' Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 95 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy 'Scotland in to the World' Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Chapman 96 Price: £5.00
Hendry, Joy Focussing on George Bruce Good p104 Chapman Magazine

Château de Carzac, romantic adventure in Sixteenth Century France and Scotland Price: £10.00
Johnstone, Iain Signed by the author to the title page; a sequel to Acheson's Haven. Some marks to covers. Mark to page block and blemish to a couple of pages, o/wise good tight copy. Signed by author on title page. p276 Tarmagan

Children of the Tempest - a tale of the Outer Isles Price: £10.00
Munro, Neil Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, but first thus. Green cloth very lightly marked and worn, some age-mottling to prelims, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p298 William Blackwood & Sons

Clytach - poems Price: £9.00
Mackie, Alastair Word leet loosely laid in. VG, stamped 'Scottish Book Trust' to the ffep, in DJ that is lightly sunned but generally VG. p40 Akros

Country Gold Price: £5.00
Paulin, Dorothy Margaret A Galloway poet. Ex-lib, missing ffep, stamp to half title and blind stamp to title page, some pages unopened, generally VG in mended, good, DJ p64 The Moray Press

Damage Land - new Scottish Gothic fiction Price: £6.00
Bissett, Alan ed. Signed by the editor to the title page. Short stories from Alison Armstrong, John Burnside, Sophie Cooke, Linda Cracknell, Toni Davidson, Chris Dolan, Michel Faber, Janice Galloway, Magi Gibson, Laura Hird, Jackie Kay, Helen Lamb, Brian McCabe, Maggie O'Farrell, James Robertson, Dilys Rose, Andrew Murray Scott, Ali Smith, Raymond Soltysek, and Christopher Whyte. Cover very slightly worn, generally VG. p216 Polygon

Etudes Ecossaises numero 6 Price: £10.00
Dixon, Keith and Morere, Pierre eds. Winter 1999-2000. A cutural magazine, with text in English and French, focussing here on the visual arts and cinema in Scotland. Inscription to front cover verso, o/w VG. p225 Universite Stendhal

Fife Lines 5 - Summer 2001 Price: £5.00
White, Ian Nimmo ed. Featuring poetry by Angus Calder, Morelle Smith and Jim C Wilson, among others. VG p64

Fife Lines No 1 September 1998 Price: £5.00
White, Ian Nimmo ed. A journal of poetry, reviews and interviews, with work by Ian Crichton Smith, Tessa Ransford, Tom Hubbard, Anne Macleod and Gordon Meade, among others. VG p64

Frae the Lyne Valley - Poems and Sketches Price: £38.00
Sanderson, Robert Grey cloth, gold lettering,some wear top and bottom of spine, corners slightly bumped, pages a little yellowed, VG p167 J and R Parlane

French Connections - Scotland and the arts of France Price: £8.00
HMSO The cultural and artistic legacy of the relationship between Scotland and France, profusely illustrated. VG, some wear to lower spine p164 HMSO

From Galt to Douglas Brown - ninetheenth century fiction and Scots language Price: £10.00
Letley, Emma VG in VG DJ p351 Scottish Academic Press

Gaelen's Story Price: £10.00
Sandiford, William K A voyage of the mind back to Celtic South West Scotland in AD 400. Signed by the author, with a dedication. VG - the signed title page is slightly marked. p160 Ashridge Press

Gold Round the Edges Price: £15.00
James, Louise Novel set against the Scottish fishing industry during the late nineteenth century. VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by the author on FFEP "With thanks for your friendship and encouragement". p244 Century

Gringo Bingo - a collection of EnvironMental Works Price: £5.00
Burke, Raymond A splendid anthology of wit and wisdom - a topical Green poem for each day between New Year's Day and Burns Night. Stapled booklet, covers creased, good. p19 South Lanarkshire Green Party

Heatherstone's Question Price: £10.00
Dillon, Des A lyrical short story, illustrated by Jacquie Swift's photographs, set in the Machars of Galloway. VG p38 an machair press

Hi Johnny Price: £10.00
Hunter, Mollie Her second children's book, set in 16th century Scotland. VG, no inscriptions, age-mottling to top edge of page block, in slightly worn, price-clipped, good DJ. p160 Evans

Hieroglyphics And Other Stories Price: £15.00
Donovan, Anne Signed by the author to the half-title page. VG, cover slightly marked. p165 Canongate

Highland Scene Price: £8.00
Lochhead, Marion Illustrated by Mildred R Lamb. Romantic tales of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. VG in edge-worn and chipped but generally sound DJ. p118 John Smith & Son

Honest Men And Bonnie Lasses Price: £5.00
Reid, Marion (compiled by) An Ayr Writers' Club Anthology. Illustrations by Christy Danielles, with a forword by James Mackay. VG - some edgewear. p80 Ayr Writers' Club

How Scotland is Governed Price: £5.00
Murray, C. de B. A review of all aspects of Scottish government in the 1930's and 40's Good in Worn DJ (chipped, tears etc); some pen uderlining on page 181, also some pencil annotation on other pages. p228 A&E Publishers

Hunt in the Highlands Price: £15.00
Wurr, H. J. Starting in Glasgow and the High Court the reader is plunged into the middle of a chase. A prisoner escapes, murder is done at Dowanhill; the narrator of the story chases the murderer but is himself chased by the police. Good - text clear in tight binding. Text block yellowed, wear at top and bottom of spine, corners lightly bumped. Ex Libris sticker on front pastedown. p301 G. Bell & Sons Ltd

In the Middle in Atween Price: £7.00
Fortune, Pete Short fiction in Scots. Ex-lib, decorated boards, in library binding, missing ffep, stamp to title page, o/w VG p28 Watergaw

Ingaitherins - selected poems Price: £7.00
Mackie, Alastair Loosely laid in is a typewritten review by James Aitchison. VG. p116 Aberdeen University Press

Is Scotland Educated? Price: £50.00
Neill, A S In the series The Voice of Scotland. The founder of Summerhill takes a look at the state of Scottish culture - intelligent, humane and, always, provocative. Ex-lib but minimal markings, boards a little worn and marked, library number to spine, decorative plate to front paste down, remains of label to ffep and back paste down, small stamp to title verso and final page, o/w VG in chipped, worn, discoloured, but good DJ p192 George Routledge and Sons

Island Nights' Entertainments Price: £45.00
Stevenson, Robert Louis Gold embossed picture and lettering on covers. Contains The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices. Map. Illus. Has the price in the list of Stevensons works altered by hand, and has the adverts dated 7G-3 93 Good - Gold lettering on spine and cover, with gold girl-and-palm-leaf illus, one and a half cm tear at top right of spine, corners bumped, sunned, worn patches on the front cover at the bottom. Some age marking internally, spine starting but generally text block VG. p277 Cassell

Jargon Hall Price: £12.00
Deeley, Norman Hilarious novelised critique of a West of Scotland teacher training college - it couldn't be Jordanhill, could it? Covers just a little sunned and scratched, generally VG, no inscriptions. p96 Merlin Books

Jaunty Jock and other stories Price: £6.00
Munro, Neil Third impression. Green cloth a little marked and worn, age-mottling to prelims, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p304 William Blackwood & Sons

Keltik Komix - no. 2 - Last Quango in Harris Price: £25.00
Murdoch, Graham and Smith, Dave Sawney Bean lives on, confronting NATO in the Western Isles. Unpaginated. Stapled booklet, creases, good. p Clan destine Distribution

Kiss Me No More Price: £30.00
Davis, Margaret Thomson Some marks to edge of page-block, generally VG, signed by the author to the title page, in very slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ. p389 Century

Last Poetic Gems Price: £15.00
McGonagall, William Previously unpublished works by the Dundee Poet and Tragedian, with an autobiographical account of the author's boyhood in Orkney and elsewhere VG, name stampt to ffep, in edge-worn and slighty marked but generally sound DJ p171 David Winter & Sons, Dundee and Gerald Duckworth & Co

Maiden Voyage Price: £10.00
Gerber, Pat The first collection of short stories from the late Scottish writer. Cover just a little worn, generally VG. p160 Kailyards Press

Manual of Practice and Procedure in the United Free Church of Scotland Price: £8.00
anon. 'Revised by the Assembly Arrangements Committee by authority of the General Assembly' Blue cloth, gold lettering, a little worn with a mark on the back, VG but has a small church stamp on each of the first few pages up to the preface. p360 Offices of the United Free Church

Multi-Stories Price: £5.00
Leith Writers Workshop Undated - 1980's. Poems and short stories. Stapled booklet, good. p20 Workers' Educational Association

New Writing Scotland 13 - Last Things First Price: £5.00
Kennedy, A L, McGonigal, James and Bateman, Meg Works in English, Scots and Gaelic. VG p162 Association for Scottish Literary Studies

New Writing Scotland Five Price: £5.00
MacDougall, Carl and Morgan, Edwin eds. Poetry and short stories from writers including Naomi Mitchison, Ian Crichton Smith, Norman MacCaig, and Aonghas Macneacail Good p226 Association for Scottish Literary Studies

No Smoke Price: £5.00
Collins, Hugh Uncorrected proof copy. VG p197 Canongate

O Rowan Tree - Sketches of Scottish Life Price: £5.00
Mackenna, Robert William Reprint. Blind-stamped blue cover, rather worn and marked, spine faded, one page badly edge-worn, pages yellowing, good only. p319 John Murray

October 1998 Price: £15.00
McGarry, James Chilling first novel. VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped, faint pencil marks to ffep. p131 Pentland Press

Omens - nine poems Price: £15.00
Smith, Sydney Goodsir No. 57 of 300 limited copies. Inscribed 'With compliments SGS' VG, cover very slightly sunned p17 M Macdonald

One City Price: £6.00
Smith, Alexander McCall; Rankin, Ian; Welsh, Irvine Short stories by three of Edinburgh's best-known writers, with an introduction by J K Rowling. VG p109 Birlinn

Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk Price: £10.00
Lockhart, John Gibson, William Ruddick ed. First published in 1819, this gives an interesting, satirical side-light on the personalities of the Scottish Enlightenment, by a former editor of Blackwood's Magazine. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, price-clipped DJ, strengthened to the spine, good. p204 Scottish Academic Press

Poor Angels and other stories Price: £10.00
Dolan, Chris Signed by the author on the half title page. A little creased, o/w VG, author's signature to half title. p153 Polygon

Procedures and Decisions of the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal Price: £6.00
Smith, Ian S and Barton, John M Some marks to cover, slight edge-wear, small tippex marks to ffep, occasional underlining, generally VG p192 T&T Clark/Law Society of Scotland

Rag Woman, Rich Woman Price: £15.00
Davis, Margaret Thomson A classic novel of Glasgow working class life in the '20s. Slight wear to spine, name to fep, generally VG in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ, not price-clipped. p361 Century Hutchinson

Reading by Lamplight - a Scottish bedside book Price: £8.00
Spence, Rhoda Stories of Edinburgh, Orkney and places in between, by the editor, for twentythree years, of Scotland's Magazine, the daughter of Lewis Spence. Signed 'To dear Percy from Rhoda and Claire' (Claire being her younger sister, to whom the collection is dedicated). Corners very slightly bent, generally VG p145 The Orkney Press

Return to Scotland - an egoist's journey Price: £15.00
McLaren, Moray A exploration both of Scotland and of his own mind. VG(spine slightly cocked) in poor DJ (chipped, worn, closed tears). p193 Duckworth & Co

Rock is Water Price: £5.00
Donati, Colin Poems. Stapled booklet, illustrative card covers, VG p32 Kettilonia

Scarista Style Price: £7.00
Johnson, Alison Free-range and humane cooking and eating at Scarista House on Harris in the Outer Hebrides - recipes and narative. VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped. p167 Victor Gollancz

Scot-Free - New Scottish Plays Price: £9.00
Cameron, Alasdair selected by Contains John Byrne, Writer's Cramp; John Clifford, Losing Venice; Ann Marie di Mambro, The Letter Box; Chris Hannan, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn; John McKay, Dead Dad Dog; Rona Munro, Saturday at the Commodore; and an introduction by Alasdair Cameron. Slight edge-wear, VG p275 Nick Hern Books

Scotland - the Vital Market Price: £10.00
Credland G D, B E Luby, George T Murray, Ian La Frenais A picture of the Scottish economy in 1966, both industrial development and distribution and retail. Ex academic library but minimal markings, generally a good copy in good DJ. p233 Scottish Television

Scotland, Multinationals and the Third World Price: £7.50
Maxwell, Stephen The role of multinational companies in Scotland and the developing world. Produced in conjunction with SEAD, Scottish Education and Action for Development Ex academic library but minimal markings, generally a good clean copy in good dj p158 Mainstream

Scots - a statement o principles Price: £5.00
The Scots Pairliament Cross Pairty Group on the Scots Language A road forrit for the Scots language in a multilingual Scotland, based on the Universal Declaration o Linguistic Richts. In Scots. Stapled booklet, VG. p24 Scottish Parliament

Scots Variety Cookbook Price: £10.00
McCormick illus. Recipes contributed by over 250 Scottish variety artistes (including Stanley Baxter, Una McLean, the Krankies, Rikki Fulton, Billy Connolly, Anne Lorne Gillies and many more) to raise funds for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, all decorated by Malky McCormick. Light wear to cover, generally VG. p107 Alloway Publishers

Scottish and English Schools Price: £6.00
Osborne, G. S. 'A comparative study of the past fifty years'. VG in good DJ (chipped and worn, with some small tears). p351 U of Pittsburg Press

Scottish Drink Book Price: £10.00
Chambers Whisky, beer, wine and soft drinks VG in VG, slightly edge-worn, DJ p128 W & R Chambers

Scottish International quarterly review No.2 April 1968 Price: £7.50
Garioch Robert, Morgan, Edwin and Tait, Robert eds. Contributors include Edwin Morgan, William Wolfe, Andrew Grommet, George Bruce, Cordelia Oliver, Tom Buchan, Stephen Bann (on Ian Hamilton Finlay), Elspeth Davie and Maurice Lindsay, among others. Stapled booklet, good - staples rusted, marking and much damage to lower right hand corner throughout, but not obscuring text. p63 Scottish International Review

Scott's Verse Romances Price: £5.00
Scott, Sir Walter, Findlay, H J ed. Undated. In the Self-Study English series. Selections from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion and The Lady of the Lake, edited to form coherent stories, with maps and exercises. Green cloth, gold lettering, small name inked out to front paste-down, pages yellowed, o/w VG in chipped, worn, good DJ. p127 Oliver and Boyd

Screening Scotland Price: £10.00
Petrie, Duncan The new Scottish cinema (Trainspotting to Ratcatcher) in an historical perspective. Ex-lib, in laminated illustrative library binding, missing ffep and with stamp to title pages, o/w VG, clean. Tight and sound. p250 British Film Institute

Scully's Lugs Price: £6.00
Hutchinson, Stewart From Scotland to Hong Kong and the drama of a typhoon in the China Sea, - an exploration of the motives and jealousies of the creative spirit. VG. DJ VG, small mark top left on front cover, little worn at top and bottom, not clipped. p231 Chambers

Seeven Poems o Maister Francis Villon Price: £24.00
Scott, Tom Signed 'Til Alex. Leish frae Tom Scott'. With a newspaper cutting of another poem by Tom Scott, Adam, loosely laid in. Number 168 of 195 numbered copies. The wall-paper wraps are well tattered and separated at the spine, the eps are sunned, the pages yellowed, the printing errors on page nine corrected in ink (the same as the signature?), good only. p12 The Pound Press

Selected Poems Price: £5.00
Morrice, Ken A selection of the work of this Aberdeenshire poet. VG p55 Keith Murray

Sideways 2 New Poetry and Prose 1992 Price: £6.00
Paisley, Janet ed. Stories and poems from the Southside Writers Group, during Janet Paisley's time as writer-in-residence. VG p54 Clydeside

Simon's Challenge Price: £10.00
Breslin, Theresa Signed and with an inscription by the author to the ffep. Winner of the Kathleen Fidler award. Vgin VG DJ p112 Blackie

Sing Frae the Hert - the literary criticism of Alexander Scott Price: £5.00
MacCalum, Neil R ed This selection of the work of poet and playwright Alexander Scott gives a snapshot of the Scottish literary scene in the '60's and 70's. Ex-lib, in hard laminated illustrative library binding, missing ffep, o/w clean, tight, sound and good. p76 Scottish Cultural Press

Sir Walter's Dogs Price: £7.50
Cook, E Thornton Dogs, actual and literary, beloved by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated cover a little marked, generally VG p62 Grant & Murray

Songs for the Seventies - a collection of contemporary hymns Price: £5.00
Roberston, A K and Goldie G D eds. New hymns and songs prepared for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with music. Cover a little worn, very occasional pencil marks, good p59 Saint Andrews Press

Sou'wester 2 Price: £5.00
Pow, Tom ed. With contributions by Ron Butlin and Tom Pow among others. Stapled booklet, good. p48 Sou'Wester

Sou'wester 3 Price: £5.00
Pow, Tom With contributions by Hamish Brown, Carl MacDougall and George Gunn, among others. Stapled booklet, good. p48 Sou'Wester

Sou'wester 4 Price: £5.00
Pow, Tom ed. With contributions by Alan Temperley, Donald Campbell and Ron Butlin among others. Stapled booklet, good. p48 Sou'Wester

Sparks! Price: £20.00
Hendry, Diana and Pow, Tom Signed by both authors to the title page. A monthly poetic challenge - each set the other subject and metre - 24 fine poems, and a creative writing source-book. Stapled booklet, VG. p52 Mariscat

Speak Up, Spike! Price: £10.00
Ewart, Franzesca G Signed by the author on the title page. A children's book, in the series Go Bananas, with story, facts and activities based around shadow puppetry. VG p43 Egmont

Sphinx 1 August 2005 Price: £5.00
Nelson, Helena ed. The first issue of a magazine celebrating poetry in chapbook, or pamphlet, form. Stapled booklet, VG. p44 Happenstance Press

Sphinx 2 November 2005 Price: £5.00
Nelson, Helena ed. Hamish Whyte of Mariscat headlines the second issue of this magazine devoted to poetry in chapbook form. Stapled booklet, VG. p44 Happenstance Press

Stirling Sonnets Price: £8.00
Robertson, James Poems on the Stirling Smith museum, illustrated by Owain Kirby. Stapled booklet, VG. p23 Kettillonia

Story 2008 - Happenstance Price: £5.00
Vowler, Tom; Field, Jo; Eiseman-Renyard, Hannah; Willans, Joel; Crowther, Rachel The winning entries from the Happenstance short story competition. Stapled booklet, VG. p36 Happenstance Press

Strange Tales of the Highlands and Lowlands Price: £9.00
Melross, Alec Gurney Charming, evocative and restrained, this collection of stories is concerned with apparently supernatural occurrences across the Western Highlands and Lowlands. VG p219 Citron Press

Stranger on the River Price: £5.00
Gerber, Pat A children's story, set in the Highlands. Cover a little creased, generally VG. p128 Kailyards Press

Strathinver - a portrait album, 1945 - 1953 Price: £10.00
Bell, Robin With an introduction by Naomi Mitchison. Signed by the author. VG, no inscriptions other than author's signature on ffep, in VG DJ, not price-clipped p104 Macdonald Publishers

Student Songs Price: £8.00
Clark, A Melville, Oakley, C A, Murray, C P E, Lendrum, Alan C eds. Reprint. Words and music of favourite songs selected mostly from the British and the Scottish Students' Song Books. VG. p124 Bayley & Ferguson

Sunset on the Loch Price: £10.00
Bee Jay Signed by the author, and with a handwritten letter from the author to Mrs. Duncan, whose signature is on the ffep, loosely laid in. VG, rust mark from the paperclip that held the letter to the ffep, in edge-worn but generally VG DJ. p298 Barker Johnson

Survival Without Error and other stories Price: £12.00
Smith, Iain Crichton Uncorrected proof copy, with DJ VG, DJ edge-worn and sunned, small closed tears at top of spine. p223 Victor Gollancz

Surviving the Shipwreck Price: £13.00
McIlvanney, William Collected journalism. VG in price-clipped, very slightly edge-worn, generally VG DJ. p253 Mainstream

Tales for Baron Munchausen Price: £5.00
Morgan, Edwin Poetic reconstructions from Scotland's Makar. Stapled booklet, VG. p30 Mariscat

Technique Price: £5.00
Bowd, Gavin Poems. VG p101 Dionysia Press

The Annals of the Parish and The Ayrshire Legatees Price: £9.00
Galt, John Undated. With a biographical study by Jean L Watson. Brown cloth, a little worn and marked, front hinge loosening, pages somewhat yellowed and very occasionally marked, good., p254 Dunn & Wright

The Berlusconi Bonus - the first draft of Adolphus Hibbert's Confession Price: £5.00
Cameron, Allan A novel. VG p183 Luath Press

The Betrothed, a tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of the Canongate Price: £15.00
Scott, Sir Walter Reprint, first published in 1825. The text is arranged in two columns and there are b/w illustrations as head and tail pieces to some chapters. Blue cloth, gold lettering to the spine, name stamps to front paste-down, pages yellowed and some age-mottling throughout, tight and sound, good. p732 Adam and Charles Black

The Bibliotheck new series vol 1 No 2 2004 Price: £5.00
Kelly, W A and McCleery, A M eds. ISSN 0006 193X With contributions by Gillian Hughes on James Hogg and The Metropolitan; by Linda Dryden on the Hardys and William Mathie Parker; by John Manson on MacDiarmid; by W A Kelly on Douglas and Gray. VG. p64 Scottish Centre for the Book

The Black Duchess Price: £20.00
Knight, Alanna Signed by the author. VG, map end-papers, in good (chipped, small closed tears) DJ. p272 Doubleday & Co

The Call of the Island Price: £8.00
Warr, Charles L Green cloth, a little faded and very slightly stained, with gold Celtic cross and lettering, gilt on top, internally VG, no inscriptions p310 Robert Grant & Son

The Dark Horse - Scottish-American poetry magazine - 1999 - No 8 Price: £5.00
Cambridge, Gerry ed. With contributions from Philip Hobsbaum on Ted Hughes, Dana Gioia on James Fenton, Alasdair D F Macrae on Iain Crichton Smith, and an interview with Douglas Dunn. Cover a little marked, generally VG p72

The Dark of Summer Price: £8.00
Linklater, Eric Green cloth covers worn and with faded blotches, inscription to ffep, which has the corner cut off, some age-mottling to edge of page block, o/w clean, tight and sound, good, in good DJ, edge-worn, and with wear to spine top and tail. p304 Jonathan Cape

The Darkening Green Price: £25.00
Mackenzie, Compton Signed by the author to the title page. There is an ownership plate to the front paste down in the name of Rupert Croft-Cooke: Mackenzie was a character witness at his trial. Green cloth covers marked and worn, one corner chipped, age-mottling to prelims, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p328 Cassell

The early life and adventures of Sylvia Scarlett Price: £10.00
Mackenzie, Compton Covers worn and marked, spine worn top and tail, eps browned, no inscriptions, some grubby marks to pages, good. p489 Martin Secker

The End of a Regime? - Scottish - South African writing against apartheid Price: £5.00
Filling, Brian and Stuart, Susan eds An anthology. VG. p300 Aberdeen University Press

The Flittin' and other Galloway Sketches Price: £15.00
Corrie, Joe Undated. Humorous tales in broad Gallovidian. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn, pages yellowed and age-mottled, good. p72 Galloway Gazette

The Four Poster Bed & Other Stories Price: £9.00
Melross, Alec Gurney VG p99 Cairnlea Publications

The General Assembly 2002 Price: £5.00
The Church of Scotland The reports to the General Assemby of the Church of Scotland, 2002. VG p Church of Scotland Board of Practice and Procedure

The Harp and Claymore Price: £180.00
Skinner, J Scott, edited and with an introduction by Gavin Greig 'A volume of music, original, selected and traditional - pastorals, marches, Strathspeys and reels, hornpipes, laments, songs - for voice, violin, bagpipe, and pianoforte'. The original collection of Scottish traditional music by the 'King of Strathspey'. Green boards, bevelled edges, gold and black decoration to front board, gold title to spine rather worn, wear to spine head and foot and to corners, some marks to boards, gilt all round, black end papers, hinges a little delicate, contemporary dedication and quotation from Burns to ffep verso, very small tears to inner corner of ffep and frontis now invisibly mended, author's portrait as frontis, with signature and date, grubby marks to some pages, generally good for age p182 Bayley & Ferguson

The Last King of Fife Price: £8.00
Livingstone, Eleanor Signed by the author to the title page. Stapled booklet, VG. p32 Happenstance Press

The Leaf and The Marble Price: £5.00
Smith, Iain Crichton An extended love poem - 'When everything trembles, only love holds it together'. VG p64 Carcanet

The Lost Chart Price: £8.00
Gunn, Neil M Light blue cloth covers a little marked and worn, wrinkles to paste-down, no inscriptions, some age-mottling, good, no DJ. p352 Faber

The Masque of Edinburgh Price: £18.00
Garioch, Robert Hilarious romp through Scottish history, a play in fine Scots Pages a little yellowed, name to half title, generally VG p37 M Macdonald

The New Road Price: £7.00
Munro, Neil Green cloth covers a little marked and worn, small split to spine, no inscriptions, good, no DJ. p374 William Blackwood & Sons

The North Wind of Love - books One and Two Price: £12.00
Mackenzie, Compton Vol 1 published in 1944, vol 2 in 1945. Blue cloth, gold lettering and wind-vane motif, vol 1 bright and clean, neat name to ffep, good, no DJ, vol 2 a little marked and discoloured to the spine, no inscriptions, good, no DJ. p Chatto & Windus

The Passionate Kindness Price: £12.00
Knight, Alanna A novel of the love story of Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne. Signed by the author to the title page. VG, pages yellowed, in faded, marked and edge-worn but generally sound DJ p256 Milton House

The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden Price: £15.00
Turnbull, William B ed. Half leather bound, gilt on top, deckle-edged, spine worn and badly chipped to top and bottom, browning to end-papers, stain to fore-edge of tissue protected frontis., internally VG, tight and sound p346 Reeves & Turner

The Pride of Fiona MacRae Price: £15.00
Swan, Annie S Undated. Black cloth a little worn and marked, lettering to the spine much worn, no inscriptions, some age-mottling, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p351 John Leng & Co

The Professor Challenger Stories Price: £10.00
A Conan Doyle First thus. Red cloth covers a little worn and marked, age mottling to prelims, no inscriptions, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p577 John Murray

The Red Wheelbarrow - the film issue - 9 Price: £5.00
Gairn, Louisa ed. A magazine of poetry and opinion. Works by Patience Agbabi, Pedro Serrano (translated by Anna Crowe), David Taylor, Alice White, Brian Johnstone, Ian Revie, Roddie Lumsden. Stapled booklet, VG. p32

The Reverend I M Jolly book 2 - One Deity at a Time Sweet Jesus Price: £5.00
Fulton, Rikki VG p189 Black and White

The Rock Harvest Price: £20.00
Rae, Hugh Signed by the author. VG in VG DJ (small mark on back left corner, slightly edge-worn, not price-clipped). p227 Constable

The Scotish Minstrel - a selection from the vocal melodies of Scotland ancient and modern Vol III Price: £15.00
Smith, R A Undated - 19th century. Fourth edition. Title engraving shows a kilted youth. Traditional songs arranged for voice and piano. Volume 3 only. Dark green cloth marked and worn, spine strengthened with japanese paper, no inscriptions, hinges loose but holding, pages age-mottled, yellowed and with occasional grubby marks, good. p108 J Purdie

The Scottish Companion 1989-90 Price: £5.00
anon. An alphabetical listing of organisations active in Scotland. Occasional marginal marking, generally VG in VG DJ p176 Carrick Publishing

The Scottish Educational System Price: £5.00
Hunter, S. Leslie History and current practice. Part of the Commonwealth and International Library of Science, Technology , Engineering and Liberal Studies. Good p269 Pergamon

The Scottish Police - an outline of their powers and duties Price: £8.00
Mill, James Red cloth, a little sunned, some age-spotting to eps, generally VG p208 W Green & Son

The Scottish Review - Ghost Stories - No. 16, 1998 Price: £5.00
Roy, Kenneth ed. With contributions by David Daiches, Maggie Lennon, Ian Mackenzie, James Shaw Grant, Fiona MacDonald, Kenneth Roy, Derick Thomson (on Iain Crichton Smith), Alison Prince and Brid Hetherington. VG p85 The Scottish Review

The Scottish Review 17 - Arts and Environment Price: £5.00
Lindsay, Maurice Featuring Alan Bold, J Morton Boyd, George Bruce, Cedric thorp Davie, Gordon Donaldson, G F Dutton, Giles Gordon, Jack House, Eona Macnicol, Iain Crichton Smith. Stapled booklet, covers marked, good. p63 Scottish Civic Trust

The Scottish Stage Price: £5.00
Smith, Donald ed. Essays calling for a National Theatre for Scotland, with contributions by Boswell, Byatt, Cameron, Campbell, Gray, Hendry, Linklater, McKail, Scott, Smith and Stevenson. Stapled booklet, good p47 Candlemaker Press

The Shadow Price: £9.00
Gunn, Neil M 2nd impression. VG, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, in lightly marked, edge-worn, good DJ. p240 Faber

The Spell & Other Stories Price: £5.00
Melross, Alec Gurney Contains: The Missing Boots, The Deadly Figure, and The Spell. VG p82 Cairnlea Publications

The Starling Price: £5.00
Macleod, Norman Undated; inscription on fly is 1917; Nelson's Classics series Red cloth, good, some slight pencil scribbles p282 T Nelson & Sons

The Taste of Too Much Price: £10.00
Hanley, Clifford First edition from Glasgow author. VG, no inscriptions, pages a little yellowed, in edge-worn, slightly chipped, good DJ, not price-clipped. p198 Hutchinson

The Tilting Room Price: £10.00
Butlin, Ron Short stories, signed by the author on the title page. Cover a little worn, generally VG p136 Canongate

The Way the Words are Taken Price: £10.00
Fulton, Robin Occasional writing on Scottish writers, book-reviewing, poetry in translation, Swedish writers, Russian poets, Heinrich Boll, Robert Frost etc. VG, neat name (of Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone) to ffep p191 MacDonald

The Woman in the Mirror Price: £6.00
Melross, Alec Gurney VG p89 Cairnlea Publications

Thirteen Strange Tales Price: £5.00
Melross, Alec Gurney VG p96 Cairnlea Publications

Through the Hoop - young writers from Western Scotland 1992 Price: £10.00
Wilson, Pat ed. A regional anthology of poetry by school children. VG in VG DJ p112 Poetry Now

Tweed Rivers Price: £7.00
Cockburn, Ken and Carter, James eds. New writing and art inspired by the rivers of the Tweed catchment - works by Dorothy Alexander, Birtley Aris, John Behm, Gavin Bowd, Nigel Bridges, Pauline Burbidge, Fred Cannon, Colin Donati, Walter Elliot, Alec Finlay, Linda France, Valerie Gillies, Earl Haig, Rob Hain, Susheila Jameieson, Mary Kenny, Diane Lumley, John McGregor, Alice Mitchel, John Murray, Tom Murray, Katrina Porteous, Robert Quilietti, John Rogers, Judith Rowan, and Judy Thomas. VG p256 Luath Press

Uncle Henry's Last Stand Price: £5.00
McKee, Alasdair VG, with large inscription to the ffep saying the author played in the previous owner's jazz band. In slightly edge-worn DJ, not price-clipped, generally VG. p197 Chatto & Windus

Variations on a Time Theme Price: £10.00
Muir, Edwin Pages yellowed and endpapers mottled, half the backstrip is detached, but generally VG p31 J M Dent

Voyage of Intent Price: £5.00
Robertson, James Published to mark Robertson's time as poet in residence at the Scottish Parliament, this includes a new sonnet sequence and three essays on Scottish literature, identity and politics, as well as Enric Miralles first sketches for the building. Sticker ghost to front cover, o/w VG. p63 Scottish Book Trust/Luath

Waverley Novels, Centenary Edition, complete 12 Vol set Price: £120.00
Scott, Sir Walter Please note, this set will call for extra postage, at cost. Two, or at times three novels are bound in each volume. Half bound in leather with marbled boards, spine with gilt stamped decorative bands, marbled end-papers, all edges marbled, tissue guarded frontis, title vignette, b/w illustrations in text, hinges weakening in all vols, some age-mottling, boards rubbed and slightly marked in some cases, but generally a good, sound, handsome set. Please email for further details. p Adam & Charles Black

Wayfaring Songs Price: £20.00
Anderson, John Poems on a rural theme. Ex-lib, usual stamps, o/w bright, tight and sound. p108 Fraser, Asher & Co

Whistle-Binkie - a collection of songs for the social circle. 2 Vols. Price: £21.00
Carrick, J D ed Lyrics, mainly in Scots and often humorous Red cloth, gilt on top, a little faded to spine especially vol 1, slight age-mottling to page edges and prelims, generally VG both vols. p David Robertson

Winter Gifts Price: £5.00
anthology An anthology of poems on a Winter theme, from poets ranging from George Mackay Brown to Robert Nye. Stapled booklet, VG. p32 Happenstance Press

With Both Feet Off the Ground Price: £8.00
Brown, Elpeth, Fortune, Pete, Leigh, Terence, Mitchell, douglas eds. Contemporary poetry and prose from Dumfries and Galloway, with contributions from Margaret Elphinstone, among many others. Cover a little worn, generally VG. p152 Dumfries and Galloway Libraries

Without Day - proposals for a new Scottish Parliament Price: £6.00
Finlay, Alec ed. An anthology of lighthearted and anarchic ideas in celebration of the Parliament. Inscription (to the Green Group) on the ffep, o/w VG. p182 Morning Star/City Art Centre/Polygon

Words 5 Price: £5.00
MacDougall. Carl ed Undated. Literary magazine with short stories and poems, by George Mackay Brown and Iain Crichton Smith among others. Stapled booklet, cover a little worn, generally VG p60 Markinch

XXII Ballades in Blue China Price: £17.00
Lang, A Cover and edges a little grubby, tight and sound, generally VG. p80 C Kegan Paul & Co

Ye His Saints - an anthology of excerpts from the Psalms and Gospels Price: £15.00
Haldane, Allan Legends of Scottish saints, with illustrations of crosses, sites and building associated with them, in fine calligraphy and drawing. VG. p71 Kildalton Press

Yester Years Price: £8.00
Stirling, L.M. L.M.Stirling bids farewell to the village that she grew up in. This is a period piece set in Lanarkshire and centred between the years, 1900-1945 VG, with minor bumps to spine, name to ffep. Price clipped and age spotted and blemished jacket, good. p117 Macdonald Publishers

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