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95 pages. Includes: Lucinda Leads a Fuller Life, by R.T.; Official Correspondence, Reduction Of, by James Halliday; The Girl From Marib, by Cameron Forrest; At China's Door, by Eric Simons; The Baobab, by John Welman; Georgians in Scotland, by R.J. Eden; The Old Men, by J.A. Lyall; The Looker-on. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Tommy the Tinner; How to get started in Genealogy; The trip from Ireland to New York, or Scotland to New Zealand; Memories of a Junk Man's Truck; Fowl Play!; Dolls of the first Americans; Joseph Singer's synagogues; Show Scene; Foods of our Heritage; A Nebraska Sod House - Part 1; Dream Room IV - Hansel and Gretel's Witch House; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: rare book reprint - West Wind, the life of Joseph Reddeford Walker, by Percy H. Booth; Men who wore the Oregon Boot (Gardner Shackle) - life in a makeshift territorial prison; Prairie fire - Walt Coburn; A ranch on the Nueces - Jim Ray builds a new home in Texas; the strange story of Quantrill's Surgeon - John W. Benson; Helena's hidden channel of gold; the freighter from Scotland - William Duff Stewart; Fortune's Little Casinos - scattered through Colorado's canyons; 'Tramp' General - Jo Shelby; Ghostly Camp Crittenden; Headhunting was their hobby - savage Haida raiders drew the last blood in their feud with Puget Sound pioneers a century ago... Their grim code demanded a white man's head for every Indian slain; He killed a heap of men - George Marlow; the day the brewery died - Gold Nugget Beer and the Black Hills Brewing Company of Central City, South Dakota; the boy Geronimo missed - clubbed and left for dead, he lived another hundred years!; 'she's taken bad, doc - early medicine in Big Spring, Texas; the twenty mules of Death Valley; Anvils and Coal Smoke - the old time blacksmith; One step at a time - early dreams in Wyoming; Trapped on Vick's Peak; Steamboats 'round the bend - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Ira Terrill - lawbreaker, madman or political scapegoat?; Savage days in Springtown, Texas; Black Hills Album. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Topics: Royal Merseyrail; The Train in "Table Z"; Three Days on the Settle & Carlisle; Doncaster Revisited; A Scottish Restoration; Locomotive Practice and Performance - Scotland for the New Year. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Chris Cattlin; Bobby Moore writes - a captain's lot is a happy one!; b/w photo of Paul Madeley (Leeds United); When George Best turned his back on United!; Colour photos of David Hogg (Dundee United) and Derek Possee (Millwall); Scotland's Super Saints; Football Ballet - photos; Great centerfold colour team photo of Burnley - Young stars of Turf Moor; b/w photo of David Smith (Rangers and Scotland); Colour photos of Bill Kitchener (Torquay) and Mick Doyle (Manchester City); Celtic - Chammpions of Europe!; Colour photo of Peter Dobing (Stoke City) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of John Greig (Rangers and Scotland); Bobby Moore writes about Jimmy Greaves "the best of enemies'; b/w photo of Per Bartram (Crystal Palace); The Top 'Doog' - Derek Dougan is soccer's supreme showman; Soccer's rolling stones - players who move from team to team; Colour photos of Alan Gilvean (Spurs) and Fred Pickering (Blackpool); b/w photo of Ian Gibson (Coventry City); Rangers are riding high again; Match-winning 'robots' - teams who get goals from 'dead-ball starts'; Colour centerfold photo of Everton - the Blues of Goodison Park; b/w photo of Mick Jones (Leeds United) and John Winfield (Nottingham Forest); England's Football 'Test' Team; Paul Went (Charlton); George Connelly (Celtic); Focus on Brian Kidd (Man. U.); b/w photo of Drew Jarvis (Airdrie); First Class players in the Second Division - Derek Possee, Dixie Hale, Eric McMordie, Tony Green (Blackpool), Keith Newton (Blackburn Rovers); Tragedy for Liverpool's Gallant 'Reds' - knocked out by 'Goals that Never Were'. Colour photo of Terry Paine (Southampton) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Value-Added Tax - Zero-Rating or Exemption; Recent Acquisitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum; Newliston, Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland - The Home of the Hog Family for 250 Years; Grosvenor House Fair Supplement; William James Muller 1812-1845; The Willow Pattern; The Craftsmanship of English Walnut Furniture; Celebrated Profiles - silhouette portraits at the National Portrait Gallery; Daniel gardner - An Exhibition at Kenwood; European Taste - Frank Partridge's Exhibition of English and French Furniture; English Silver Salt Cellars; Worcester Spoon Trays in the Marshall Collection; and more. Some markings. Average wear. Magazine
Moderate wear to boards. Spine sunned. Front hinge weakening. Price sticker on title page, right over the author's name (? ) ; "With a complete Atlas of Scotland and 34 other maps and plans"; The Blue Guides; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; lviii, 453, 32 pages
Slight wear to DJ and with one closed tear. ; With fold-out maps and various city plans; The Blue Guides; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 454,32 pages
Slight wear to DJ and with one closed tear. ; With fold-out maps and various city plans; The Blue Guides; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 454,32 pages
Tulsa, Oklahoma, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1936. 4to. mayor; XIX pp., 280 pp. Con 40 gráficos y mapas entre el texto, 15 ilustraciones fotográficas en láminas y 5 planos plegados encartados en la contracubierta. Encuadernación original en tela. Uno de los libros fundamentales para la dura controversia petrolera entre México y los Estados Unidos entre 1917 y 1942, presagiados por el Gran Blow-Out de Dos Bocas, en San Diego de la Mar, en la Huasteca, en 1908, y el consiguiente desarrollo de la Tampico-Tuxpan Golden Line.
253 pages. Fold-out map of Glasgow. Twelve black and white plates. Fifty-two illustrations in text. A detailed and nostalgic snapshot of life in this wonderful city over 100 years ago. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Contents moderately tanned with age. A sound copy of this engaging and informative work. Book
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
The cover has minor wearing to the cornera and edges and there is rubbing present. The text is clean, bright and tight. Used
First impression.
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
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.
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.
