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A Bobby on Ben Macdhui - life and death on the Braes o Mar
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Duff, John
30 years with police and mountain rescue in the Cairngorms. VG, no inscriptions. p139
Leopard Magazine
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A Life in Forestry
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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
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A Life on the Land - farming in Angus 1934 - 1994
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Brown, Harry
Memories of working with horses, the feeing markets and bothy life, as he progresses through the bothy system from 'loon' to 'first horseman' then to his own farm. Stapled booklet; some Scots words have been underlined, but generally VG, clean, tight and sound. p76
Pinkfoot Press
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At the Oil Camp and other tales of Shetland
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C J Williamson
Original stories evoking the people and places of Shetland. Cover just slightly marked, otherwise VG, tight and sound. p181
The Studio
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Black o' the Green - memories o' the auld days
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Black, James
Reprint. A Renfrewshire farmer's story, illustrated with old photographs. Covers marked and worn, tight and sound, good. p127
David Roe Publications
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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
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Boswell's Column
Price: £5.00 | |
Boswell, James, Margery Bailey ed.
Boswell's seventy contributions to The London Magazine under the pseudonym The Hypochonriack, from 1777 - 1783. Covers worn, marked and sunned, no inscriptions, pages yellowed and occasional grubby marks, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p359
William Kimber
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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
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Cyril Wilson - Dowser, Artist, Healer
Price: £10.00 | |
Landale, Melanie
A biography of the Dumfries artist, with many illustrations in colour. The artist's signature to the title page appears to be part of the book design. Ex-lib, in hard laminated illustrative library binding, missing ffep and half title, o/w good. p67
Solway Offset
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Duncan Main of Hangchow
Price: £15.00 | |
Gammie, Alexander
Undated. 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. Blue cloth a little marked and worn, gold Chinese character on front board and lettering on spine somewhat faded, name to ffep, front hinge weak, generally VG, no DJ. p159
Pickering & Inglis
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George Macleod
Price: £7.00 | |
Hobden, Sheila
No 4 in the series People with a Purpose - study-books about contemporary Christian heroes. A biography of the founder of the Iona Community. Stapled booklet, good p24
SCM Press
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Glasgow Through the Looking-Glass
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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
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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
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In Quarto
Price: £6.00 | |
Squires, Margaret
Humourous essays from a much missed second-hand book-shop in St Andrews. Slight wear to the cover, generally VG. p93
Cappella Archive
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John Maclean - a fighter for freedom
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Bell, Tom
A political biography of the renowned Glasgow socialist and revolutionary. Red cloth, worn and marked, no inscriptions, good. p173
Communist Party, Scottish Committee
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Life and Letters of Johns Cairns DD, LLD
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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
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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
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Memories - from Lanarkshire bings to the Galloway Hills
Price: £5.00 | |
Kane, Robina Arnott
Stapled booklet, VG. p56
G C Book Publishers
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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
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My Spring and Theirs
Price: £6.00 | |
Stewart, Averil
A collection of pre-war travel-sketches. Boards marked and worn, name and attractive ownership plate to ffep, some pages unopened, intenally VG in chipped, sunned and edge-worn good DJ. p95
Press Printing Works
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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
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'Remember Who You Are!' - the story of a son of the manse
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Clark, David Findlay
An autobiography of early years in Banff. VG, no inscriptions. p192
Cuallan Press
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Price: £5.00 | |
Bowman, John
A biography, with bibliography. Covers worn, marked and sunned, no inscriptions, tipped in frontis, pages yellowed, tight and sound, good. p32
Chantry Publications
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Scottish Abstract of Statistics 1994
Price: £10.00 | |
Government Statistical Service
Ex-lib in hard laminated illustrative library binding, missing ffep, but minimal marks and generally in VG condition internally. p209
Scottish Office
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Scottish Company Law
Price: £5.00 | |
Bourne, 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
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Sir Alexander Fleming - Man of Penicillin
Price: £9.00 | |
Malkin, John
An accessible biography. VG, no inscriptions, in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ. p81
Alloway Publishers
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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
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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
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The Big Men - personal memories of Glasgow's police
Price: £10.00 | |
Pieri, Joe
A history of the Glasgow police force, with anecdotes from men on the beat from the 30s to the 60s. Corners a little bumped, o/w VG. p184
Neil Wilson
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The Böd of Gremista - birthplace of Arthur Anderson
Price: £5.00 | |
Böd of Gremista Management Committee
Biography and guide to the building Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, good. p21
Böd of Gremista Management Committee
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The Darlinda Story
Price: £15.00 | |
Davidson, Rita
Signed by the author (Darlinda) on the half title page. VG p223
M & A Thomson
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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
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The Findhorn Community
Price: £5.00 | |
Riddell, Carol
The history and evolution of a spiritual community. Amafazine article on the 30th aniversary is loosely laid in. Cover a little grubby, generally VG. p286
Findhorn Press
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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They Happened to Me
Price: £8.00 | |
Pritchard, Stanley
Signed by the author to the half title page. Covers worn, clean, tight and sound, good. p204
Saint Andrew Press
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Vanished Waters - portrait of a Highland childhood
Price: £5.00 | |
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin
Sepia tint photographic ills. Thoughtful account of AAM's eccentric and rather strict Presbyterian upbringing. Good, spine titles are faded and worn. Some bumps and creases, slighly cocked. Boards creased to corners. Internally VG, clean and bright throughout. Rear inner flap of missing dj describing contents has been loosely laid in. p170
Methuen & Co
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We Travel Home
Price: £7.00 | |
Swan, Annie S.
A second volume of reminiscences by the popular author, with photo of author and eight drawings by Sheila Stuart. Covers a little marked, no inscriptions, generally VG in worn, marked and chipped DJ, good only. p299
Ivor Nicholson & Watson
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Who's Who in Scotland 2001
Price: £10.00 | |
n/a
VG in VG DJ. p550
Carrick
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Willie Macpherson - the Elgin Fiddler
Price: £6.00 | |
Bennett, Richard and Nairn, Graeme
Biographical material and some twenty fiddle tunes. Very slight wear to the cover, generally VG. p91
Fraser Macpherson
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