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A 'chulaidh as fheàrr

Price:  £15.00

Iain Chaluim Ruaidh (John Smith)
No publish date stated. Collection of the Christian poetry in Scottish Gaelic of Iain Chaluim Ruaidh (1857-1924). VG. p137
Stornoway Religious Bookshop

A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language in two parts.

Price:  £50.00

Macleod, Rev. Dr. Norman and Dewar, Rev. Dr. Daniel
Attractive Celtic revival bookplate in English on the front paste-down and in Gaelic on the ffep. Ex-academic-lib copy in green cloth library binding with minimal stamps, boards are marked and a little worn to corners and edges, internally clean, tight and sound, good. p1007
John Grant

An rathad Dhachaigh

Price:  £8.00

Moireach,Ian
Fiction for the older child in Gaelic. Concerns adventures in a drive through heavy snow. Very good, crease to front cover. p83
Acair

Ann an dùthaich ùr

Price:  £15.00

Shaw, Jeffrey
Historical fiction but based on tales told to the author. Set in Canada, Light sunning to spine o/wise very good. Clean and tight copy p169
Clàr

Ann an Glac Ghilleasbaig

Price:  £8.00

MacLeòid, Coinneach, I
Planaid G. In a series. Children's fiction from Kenny Macleod. Very Good but a little creased to cover. p113
Acair

Ceol nam Feis - a collection of songs and music from the Scottish Gaelic Tradition…

Price:  £25.00

Bryan, Valerie ed.
Ceòl nam Feis. Great collection. Musical notation. Pibroch , homeland songs, lullabies, love songs. Many others. Well-known tunes/songs for playing, learning with some more contemporary artistes/composers such as Runrig featured. Most pieces have a note stating which artistes have recorded these songs/tunes on what CD. etc. A collection aimed primarily towards teachers at fèisean but accessible to any one with an interest in the subject. Includes bibliography and list of useful addresses and recording companies. Spiral bound covers are rather worn, with small closed tear, on front o/wise good p103
Fèisean nan Gàidheal

Co ghoid am bogha-froise?

Price:  £5.00

MacFhionnlaigh, Fearghas
Who stole the rainbow? Good, some pencil annotation, covers a little worn. p83
Oilthigh Ghlaschu

Criomagan Ioma-Dhathte

Price:  £8.00

Macleoid, Iain Aonghas
Miscellany of prose pieces in Scottish Gaelic with a 70's feel upon a diverse range of subjects. Light marks to covers, light crease to spine. Dustjacket has light signs of age mottling. p116
Tachmac 'sa chomunn

Deireadh an Fhoghair

Price:  £35.00

Caimbeul, Tormod
The End of Autumn. The 1st edition hardback of this classic novel of rural isolation considered by some to be a "Sunset Song" in Scottish Gaelic. Place of publication not stated. Very good tight bind. In a VG un-price-clipped dustjacket. Previous owners name on ffep. p116
Chambers

Gaelic Songs by William Ross collected by John MacKenzie. (Calder, George - edits).

Price:  £65.00

Ross, William
Gaelic poetry with English translations. Contains a metrical translation, a glossary, a biography and notes. The songs of William Ross, the Eighteenth Century love poet of Gairloch. VG with small crease to front board and some other minor bumping to spine and corners. In a good neatly repaired dustjacket. Top edge brown. Untrimmed fore edges. A nice copy. p251
Oliver and Boyd

Gairm Leabhar XVI

Price:  £18.00

Derek Thomson
Gairm 61, 62, 63, 64 in a bound volume. Scottish Gaelic quarterly. Gaelic writing, poetry and prose. Very good. Cloth bound. Spine titles are faded, slight cock to spine. Mark to rear board o/wise vg. No dustjacket. p382
Gairm

Gairm XIX

Price:  £18.00

Derek Thomson (edits)
Gairm 73, 74, 75 and 76. In a bound volume. Scottish Gaelic quarterly. Gaelic writing, poetry prose and more. Good, some marks to boards and some creasing. Ex Libris ink stamp on front free endpaper. p384


Grian is uisge

Price:  £8.00

MacIomhair, Dòmhnall Iain
Gairm Leabhar 88. "Stories for young people." Good, some creasing to covers and pages. p66
Gairm

Nua a' bhardachd Gaidhlig

Price:  £15.00


The classic collection of 20th Century Scottish Gaelic poetry from Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, Donald MacAulay, George Campbell Hay and Derek Thomson. Edited by MacAulay. Ann an da theangachadh. Ghaidhlig, agus a' Bheurla. (with English translations). This book was first published in conjunction with James Thin (Southside publishing) and Canongate. Vg. Green covers a little creased. Gift inscription on Fep. p220
Canongate Southside

Orain Red

Price:  £6.00

Macleoid, Coinneach
Collection including biography from Twentieth Century Lewis poet. VG, no inscriptions. p56
Acair

Rosg nan Eilean

Price:  £8.00

Macasgaill, Alasdair A. deasaichte
Short stories with line drawn ills. A Gaelic reader- cum-miscellany. No 3 in the New Gaelic books series from Glasgow University. With questions and a faclair. Good a few very minor marks to boards. Internally very good p250
Oilthigh Ghlaschu

Sgeulachdan Dhòmhnaill Alasdair

Price:  £15.00

Macdonald, Donald Alasdair (Dòmhnall Alasdair)
Collection of thought provoking stories from Lewis poet, Dòmhnall Alasdair. VG. Slight crease to book. p126
Acair

Sgriobhaidhean Choinnich Mhicleoid. The Gaelic Prose of Kenneth Macleod

Price:  £15.00

Moffatt Murchison, Thomas
Published by the Scottish Academic Press for the Scottish Gaelic texts society. Volume 16 in the series. Folk songs, poems and stories. Fine collection of prose writings with Argyll Gaelic flavour from not just the helper with Margaret Kennedy-Fraser's, "Songs of the Hebrides," but much more. Contains informative biography in English with note on the Gaelic of Macleod, glosary and index. VG, in good but creased and marked dust jacket. p186
Scottish Academic Press

Sioba

Price:  £6.00

MacLeoid, Fionnlagh MacLeoid
Unpaginated. Delightful children's book 'sa Ghàidhlig about a hen who grows tired of the farm and who takes a ride in a travelling grocer's van to have various adventures… Good only, previous owner bookplate on fep. Worn covers. p
Club Leabhar

Siud an t-Eilean. There goes the Island

Price:  £8.00

Stephen Ian (Edits).
Poetry in Gaelic and English. All dealing with Lewis or Harris. A very nice collection of some established and some lesser known Gaelic poets. With biographical sketches and notes and some striking monochrome photography. Very Good p167
Acair

Studies in Scots and Gaelic

Price:  £12.00

Fenton, Alexander and MacDonald, Donald A (Edit)
Essays from the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Languages of Scotland, survey of the then state of progress in Scots and Gaelic hosted at the SSS. at Edinburgh University. VG, some light creasing, internally VG p182
Canongate Academic

Thall 's A-Bhos. Sgeulachdan air an toirt bho Bheurla gu Gaidhlig

Price:  £16.00

Greum, Calum and Mac Ill Iosa, Donnchadh
Collection of writing and short stories from various authors translated into Gaelic. Jorge Luis Borges, Grassic Gibbon, Bashevis Singer, James Joyce, Neil Munro and some others. With brief biographical sketches of the authors attached. Good, covers are somewhat worn with a little creasing, light sunning to spine. Internally, clean and bright p89
Gairm

The MacDiarmid MS Anthology. Poems and songs mainly anonymous from the collection dated 1770.

Price:  £20.00

Thomson, Derek S. edits
Scottish Academic Press for The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society. Panegyrics, comparison of known variants, satires, love poems, songs, one heroic ballad. Includes Bibliographical references and index with linguistic notes and extensive glossary. VG in very lightly edge worn boards. Vg. dust wrapper some light creasing but the front is marked with a rectangular outline where a sticker once was. p340
Scottish Academic Press










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