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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and very numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, gilt top, purple endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the personal bookplate of Percy Edward Clark on front paste-down.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped, not torn or creased. 152pp. The Queen and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842 and from that time began to assemble a notable collection of watercolour paintings for their Souvenir Albums, recording the places they had seen. Many of these paintings, from the Royal Collection, are shown here to complement the text.
London & New York, The Studio Publications, 1949. 4to. mayor; 176 pp. Con 203 ilustraciones fotográficas en láminas fuera de texto. Ligero punto de polilla en las primeras 18 pp. sin afectar a la legibilidad del texto. Encuadernación original en tela.
1st Penguin edition. VG paperback. 9646. eng
8vo., First Edition, with title in green and black, green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression, with illustrations and numerous maps (a number folding); green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Previous owner's inscription inside. Approx. 40 pages; full of b&w photos. Staple-bound. A bit musty smelling. Oblong. Staple-bound.
2 vols., [of 4], 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else both very good, bright, crisp copies, now housed in custom-made solander case lettered in gilt. As usual, the collation is variable. The tracts included here are: The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (first printed 1764); Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe (first printed 1693); The Murder of James I (MS written in 1440); Buchan's Description of St. Kilda (first printed 1773); Supplement to the History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (MS writen about 1656). Each tract has its own printed title and pagination; thus many volumes were broken for the tracts to be sold individually; copies in the original wrappers are rare. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Reichlich illustriert.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to lower rear corner. 176pp. Essentially a book of lovely photographs presenting an up-to-date picture of the Scottish capital accompanied by a short history.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and extremely minor bumping to spine top and lower rear corner. 176pp. Essentially a book of lovely photographs presenting an up-to-date picture of the Scottish region of Fife between the Forth and the Tay accompanied by a short history.
Oversize, 252p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
252 p. + Index and full page color illustrations of Scottish Tartans. Profusely illustrated with photographs by David Hicks. Numerous drawings. Endpapers decorated with a Conjectural Tree. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Very good. GENEALOGY 2
With b/w illustrations & tables.
8vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 74 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), free endpapers lightly spotted; blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Inman 71.
4th edition revised. VG hbk bound in blue embossed cloth, gilt spine lettering. Illustrated in colour by Sutton Palmer & G.F. Nicholls. (Black's new series of colour books). 22263. eng
First impression.
The cover has minor wearing to the cornera and edges and there is rubbing present. The text is clean, bright and tight. Used
Quintus MacLachlann is arrogant - unapologetically so. When he's asked to impersonate one half of a married couple to infiltrate Edinburgh society, he relishes the challenge of being "married" to the frustratingly willful yet beautiful Esme. Esme makes no bones about her fervent dislike of the dishonored rake. He's the last person on earth she can conceive of marrying, sham or otherwise. But being forced to play wife to the handsome-as-sin wastrel brings up very real feelings of desire.. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 176pp. The story of 100 years of the Cowglen Golf Club in Glasgow. Illustrated. Scarce.
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, 21 fine sepia-toned plates (10 double-page) and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, covers mildly age-faded else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A difficult Morton title to find in the dustwrapper. First published in 1933.
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, yellow top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp reissue of a Morton title first published in 1933. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
No 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. Small mark on title page where label removed. Old bookshop price label to rear. Unpaginated pp. Eighty-eight photographs of the country houses of Scotland and their social activities. Begins with an image of Queen Victoria at Balmoral.
pp681-755 + 3 plates; pp64-207 + 4 plates; pp469-509 + plate G+/none Contemporary full red calf binding, gilted framed boards and lettering on spine, cover rubbed on margins and spine cracked open on the hinge, internally very good, newspaper cutting (2 Jan 1900) pasted in pp190-191. Extracts from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vols XXXVIII, XXXIX and XL, presenting detailed records of the meteorology of Edinburgh by Robert Cockburn Mossman, illustrated by many tables and some nice coloured charts. Scarce work to be found in 3 Parts with all the plates present. Volume heavy almost 1.5kg without packing.
The British Constitution Now will fascinate the practising politician, the student of politics, and the general reader who is literally wondering what his country is coming to. 289 pages. Text contains underlining in pencil scattered throughout. Some rubbing and indentations to surface of dust jacket.