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A Life in Forestry

Price:  £8.00

McEwen, John - edited by Doris Hatvany
Edited from tapes recorded in his 97th year, this outlines the life and thinking of this veteran of the land reform movement, the author of Who Owns Scotland. VG p95
Perth and Kinross Libraries

A Scottish Family - the story of eight generations

Price:  £15.00

Willsher, Betty
A family history, stretching from Elgin in Moray, North-West Scotland, to family members in Canada and New Zealand - local history, from 'the age of the carriage to that of the computer'. Signed by the author on the half title page. Very slight crease to cover edge, newspaper article about the author sellotaped to inner front cover, partially erased biro price marking to half title, o/w VG p216
Librario

At the Oil Camp and other tales of Shetland

Price:  £5.00

C J Williamson
Original stories evoking the people and places of Shetland. Cover just slightly marked, otherwise VG, tight and sound. p181
The Studio

Bonnie Dundee - for King and Conscience - John Graham of Claverhouse

Price:  £8.00

Linklater, Magnus and Hesketh, Christian
Illustrated. A biography. Cover a little creased and worn, generally VG p244
Canongate

Character Sketches

Price:  £22.00

Macleod, Norman
Tales by the author of Reminiscences of A Highland Parish. Decorative blue cloth a little worn to spine ends and corners, prize label to front paste-down, occasional age-mottling, text arranged in two columns, generally VG, tight and sound. p88
Charles Burnet & Co

Duncan Main of Hangchow

Price:  £55.00

Gammie, Alexander
n.d. but 1920s. Frontis and 16 b & w illustrations. Biography of the Scot from Ayrshire (b. 1856) who was a missionary in China, through the church Missionary Society, from 1881 until his death in 1934 Good, gold embossed chinese character on front board, embossed lettering on spine somewhat faded, front hinge weak. p159
Pickering & Inglis

Ecurie Ecosse - the story of Scotland's Racing Team

Price:  £40.00

Murray, David
With 27 b/w photographs VG, no DJ p183
Stanley Paul

Faslane - Diary of a Peace Camp

Price:  £8.00

members of the Peace Camp
Faslane Peace Camp has recently celebrated 25 years of continuous peaceful protest at the gates of the nuclear submarine base on the Clyde. This records their first tumultuous two years. VG p86
Polygon

From Capri to Kirkcudbright - the life and work of William Robson (1863-1950)

Price:  £15.00

Gordon, Haig
Superb reproductions of his work accompany this biography of one of the lesser-known members of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony. VG. p72
St Cuthbert Publications

Glasgow Through the Looking-Glass

Price:  £10.00

Anderson, Douglas N
The history of Glasgow through costume, from 1730 to 1939 Cover just a little worn, one corner creased, generally VG p96
Heatherbank Press

Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs

Price:  £6.00

Glasser, Ralph
VG in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ (small closed tear top left of spine). p209
Chatto & Windus

Harry Gordon - the Laird of Inversnecky

Price:  £25.00

Watson, Iain
A biography of this stalwart of the Scottish Music Hall in the 1920's, from Monty's Pierrots to the Aberdeen Beach, with excerpts from his songs and comedy routines, and 20 pages of photographs. VG p111
Arts and Recreation Division

Inga's Man and other stories

Price:  £8.00

Deyell, Bertie
Tales from Shetland, many in the Shetland dialect. Signed by the author to the title verso. Stapled booklet, cover a little worn, generally VG. p42


Inga's Story - growing up in Shetland a century ago

Price:  £8.00

Spence, Janet Catherine
The author was born at Vatster, Mid Yell, in 1887. This semi-autobiographical story is full of rhymes, riddles and songs in the Shetland dialect, and reflects her love of the islands. Stapled booklet, cover a little worn, corner cut from the bottom of the title page, good. p45
Shetland Publishing Company

Life and Letters of Johns Cairns DD, LLD

Price:  £10.00

MacEwen, Alexander R
Red cloth, marked, sunned, faded especially to the spine, worn spine head and foot, internally age-mottled to prelims, o/w VG, tight and sound p798
Hodder & Stoughton

Life of Andrew Melville

Price:  £45.00

M'Crie, Thomas, DD
New Edition. Dark green cloth, gold lettering to spine, boards scratched and marked, a little wear to spine head and foot, browning to page edges and prelims, slight age-mottling, generally VG, tight and sound p508
William Blackwood & Sons

Modern Athenians

Price:  £130.00

Crombie, Benjamin W., William Scott Douglas
Glorious coloured drawings, full of humour and character, of 98 prominent Edinburgh worthies and dignatries drawn and etched by Crombie, with biographical details on the subjects provided 40 years later by W S Douglas. A magnificent and unique cross section of Edinburgh life from 1837-1847. A limited edition of 1040 copies after which the plates were destroyed. Maroon boards, leather spine, gilt on top, marbled end papers, corners and head and foot of spine rubbed and bumped, hinges loose, strengthened. A little foxing, but only rarely on the plates. Most tissue guards present p
A & C Black

My Schools and Schoolmasters

Price:  £10.00

Miller, Hugh
or The Story of My Education. Good - cover worn at edges, spine slightly faded, spine worn top and bottom, FFEP and Title Page has top right corner clipped. Some age spotting on beginning and end pages, but text clean and clear. p562
W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell

My Spring and Theirs

Price:  £5.00

Stewart, Averil
A collection of travel-sketches, of memories of Europe still at peace. A fascinating book. VG (worn, small marks top and bottom of boards) poor DJ (stained, chipped, open tears). p95
WishawPress

Phonetics for Scottish Students

Price:  £8.00

Williams, Irene F
'The sounds of polite Scottish described and compared with those of polite English' - using Dr Henry Sweet's method of sound-classification, but with extra symbols to identify uniquely Scottish sounds. Some of the blank pages have been covered with neat pencil contemporary lesson plans. Cover very slightly worn, name to ffep, some age-mottling to prelims, pages yellowing, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p66
James Maclehose

Scottish Abstract of Statistics 1994

Price:  £10.00

Government Statistical Service
Lib binding, missing fep, but minimal marks and generally in VG condition throughout p209
Scottish Office

Scottish Company Law

Price:  £20.00

Bourne, Professor Nicholas and Pillans, Brian
The essential text for those who require a lucid and accurate introduction to company law as it applies in Scotland Cover worn at edges, inscribed by previous owner on FFEP, internally VG. p307
Cavendish Publishing Limited

Scottishness - Reflections on Identity - Holyrood Magazine 2006

Price:  £20.00

Rhodes, Mandy ed.
Reflections on identity from 67 prominent Scots. VG, cover just a little creased. p161
Holyrood Communications

Sir Walter Scott

Price:  £5.00

Cruse, Amy
With coloured frontis and eight b/w illustrations. A biography. Grey cloth a little marked and worn, illustrative front cover (the sillhouette of Edinburgh castle against an orange sky), internally good only - missing ffep, age-mottled, slight damp staining, some grubby marks, o/w sound and complete. p186
George G Harrap & Co

Some Dumfries and Galloway Men

Price:  £30.00

Reid, James
Biographical sketches of prominent Gallovidians of the period, with portraits. They include Col. R F Dudgeon, Hugh S Gladstone, Sir Matthew Wallace, Col. F J Carruthers, Dr C C Easterbrook, Sir William Younger, W J H Maxwell, Archibarld Kirkpatrick, T S Macaulay, Major William Murray, John Grierson, John Meaxwell, Col. J Beaufin Irving, Norman M'Kinnel, Joseph Laing Waugh, H Cavan Irving, G W Shirley, E A Hornell, Rev. J King Hewison, J W Critchley, A C Penman, Thomas Fraser, Sir James Crichton-Browne, David J Bell-Irvine, Earl Loreburn, Sir Herbert Maxwell, James Carmont, George Neilson, Sir William Carruthers, Sir W D Mitchell Cotts, Sir John Gordon Nairn, Sir Robert Blair, Robert I Watson, DR R W MacKenna, Lord Glendyne of Sanquhar, Prof. Robert Wallace, James Wyllie, and Hugh W B Crawford Ex-lib in library binding, missing ffep, minimal marking, slight marks to index page, o/w VG p286
Thos. Hunter, Watson & Co

Strategic Women

Price:  £5.00

Gerver, Elisabeth and Hart, Lesley
Subtitled 'How do they manage in Scotland?', this a study both of achievement and obstruction. VG p203
Aberdeen University Press

Sula - the seabird-hunters of Lewis

Price:  £50.00

Beatty, John
Photographs, mainly black and white, with accompanying text, illustrating the annual gannet harvest on Sula Sgeir - a vivid social history. Ex-lib, in laminated illustrative binding a little worn, missing ffep, o/w VG, tight and sound. p143
Michael Joseph

The Clan Ranald of Knoydart & Glengarry

Price:  £60.00

MacDonald, Norman H
A history of the MacDonalds or MacDonells of Glengarry VG in VG DJ p199
Privately Printed

The Darlinda Story

Price:  £15.00

Davidson, Rita
Signed by the author (Darlinda) on the half title page. VG p223
M & A Thomson

The Diaries of William Paterson Paterson

Price:  £8.50

Rawlins, Clive L ed.
Diaries from 1912 to 1920 of this prominent member of the Church of Scotland, Professor of Divinity at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities and founder of the Scottish American Association. VG, small address label to front paste-down, in VG DJ, very slight edge-wear and some fine scratches. p311
Faith and Life Books

The Dumfries Ether Diary

Price:  £8.00

Baillie, Thomas W
A monograph on the first surgical use of anaesthetic ether in the Old World, at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in 1846 Ex-lib, missing ffep, o/w VG in VG DJ p70


The Findhorn Community

Price:  £5.00

Riddell, Carol
The history and evolution of a spiritual community VG-cover a bit grubby p286
Findhorn Press

The G.U.M. between Wars

Price:  £10.00

Glasgow University Magazine (John Welsh & Harold H. Munro)
Prose and poetry from GUM from 1919-1939 VG (some yellowing/age spotting) in Poor DJ (large tears, chipped and worn). p192
Robert Maclehose

The Highland Game - life on Scottish sporting estates

Price:  £11.00

Satterley, Glyn
Introduction by Michael Wigan. A photographic record. Generally VG - slight water-marking to first few pages p136
Swan Hill Press

The Ingenious Mr Bell

Price:  £12.00

Osborne, Brian D
A biography of the pioneer of steam-ship navigation. Signed by the author ('Best wishes, Brian') to the title page. VG in VG DJ. p286
Argyll

The Life of a Scottish Probationer, being a memoir of Thomas Davidson

Price:  £7.00

Brown, James
With his poems and extracts from his letters. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Spine splitting, and worn top and tail; some marks to cover, missing ffep, hinges weak, good. p335
James Maclehose

The Making of a King - a biography of the young man who became James VI

Price:  £12.00

Bingham, Caroline
First US edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Black cloth, a little marked and edge-worn, internally VG, in worn and chipped DJ p199
Doubleday

The Musings of a Scottish Granny

Price:  £7.50

Ishbel, marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
Memoirs of upper class life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Ex-lib, blue cloth cover worn and marked, pages a little yellowed, b/w illus all present, good, no DJ. p208
Heath Cranton Ltd

The Pain of Confinement - Prison Diaries

Price:  £20.00

Boyle, Jimmy
Sequel to A Sense of Freedom. Loosely laid in are a 2-page report by Sarah Boyle on a Life, Death and Transition workshop, and a newspaper clipping: 'Boyle Banned after Drink Driving' VG, a couple of faint marks to the edge of the page block, in very slightly marked and edge-worn DJ, not price-clipped, VG. p351
Canongate

The Scot of the Eighteenth Century - his Religion and his Life

Price:  £15.00

Watson, John
Undated. Dark green cloth, gold lettering, just a little worn to spine top and bottom, and lightly bumped to the corners, pages yellowed, a little marked to page edges, generally VG, tight and sound. p345
Hodder & Stoughton

The Scottish Covenanters

Price:  £15.00

Vos, Johannes G.
Their origins, history and distinctive doctrines. VG - slight reading crease on spine. p231
Blue Banner Productions

The Scottish Nation - 3 Vols

Price:  £50.00

Anderson, William
'The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland', illustrated with engravings and woodcuts. Green cloth, quarter-bound, spines in very poor condition, with a large piece missing from vol.3, front board detached vol.2, vol.1 held together with sellotape. Internally very good for age, complete. p
A Fullarton & Co.

The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton

Price:  £10.00

Hamilton, Thomas
Gives a remarkably vivid evocation of merchant life in Glasgow, and of life in the old Glasgow University, just before the onset of the industrial revolution. VG. DJ spine slightly sunned and chipped, o/w VG p458
Association for Scottish Literary Studies

We Travel Home

Price:  £10.00

Swan, Annie S.
A second volume of reminiscences by the popular author, with photo of author and eight drawings by Sheila Stuart VG in rather poor dj p299
Ivor Nicholson & Watson










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