CATTON BruceMareMagnum
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3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous maps coloured in outline and endpaper maps; cloth (blue/red/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good clean set in dustwrapper. Catton's universally acclaimed Centennial History comprises The Coming Fury (1966), Terrible Swift Sword (1963) and Never Call Retreat (1966). COMPLETE SETS OF THE UK EDITION ARE SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of Catton's masterly Grant trilogy.
8vo., First Edition, with 5 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; original grey cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter age-browned and frayed with loss at extremities. A standard reference, published in the Mainstream of America series edited by Lewis Gannett. The title was borrowed by Ken Burns in his acclaimed TV documentary series of 1991.
A celebration of the tercentenary of the Bank of Scotland by the Chief Archivist Alan Cameron - before we had all heard the phrase 'sub-prime'. Dust jacket has tear at top back. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, coloured plate and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed fascsimile reissue of the original edition of 1909.
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous coloured illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board and backstrup blocked and lettered in silver, a very good, brigght, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at extremities and with loss at head and tail of backstrip.
Initials to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 303pp. A detailed account of the naval battles of the American Civil War, which, although there has been less coverage of them than of the land battles, were crucial factors in the outcome of the war.
