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362p., illus Hardcover Good condition, light edgewear, minor annotation
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 20pp. The story of Glasgow's Coronation trams, reprinted from Modern Tramway. Well illustrated.
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and slight bumping to rear corners. Price clipped dust jacket with light creasing/small tears to upper edge. 192pp. Produced to coincide with Glasgow being the European City of Culture in 1990, this book is a celebration, a guide, a tribute to the city. With a wealth of black & white photographs showing the city throughout the twentieth century.
The great Scot's hero Patrick Hepburn was known simply as The Hepburn. Strong, hot-tempered, and reckless, he is the chief supporter of James IV of Scotland and finds himself locked in the dangerous schemes and plots of his new king as he fights to keep his throne and conquer Henry VII of England.In appreciation for the Hepburn's valor and loyalty, Jamie Stuart awards The Hepburn the hand of a beautiful noble woman. However, the willful and spirited Jane Gordon boldly refuses to be possessed and makes every meeting between them a fiery battle of wits.... The result is an action-filled, compelling novel with a full complement of courtiers and courtesans, ladies of high and low degree, dramatic fights, bold ventures, historical intrigue, and sizzling romance. Neat sound copy. Name of previous owner Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by Peter Dunbar. Prebble's vivid retelling of the Tay Bridge disaster. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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
Oversize, 252p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., Sixth Impression thus, with title-vignette, 8 plates, and 2 full-page maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published by S&W in 1963. Second volume of Prebble's masterly trilogy of Scottish studies, following 'Culloden' (1961) and preceding 'Glencoe' (1966).
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs and map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright copy.
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 182pp. Detailed study of Scotland's Highland Railway. Illustrated.
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.
First edition, small 4to, xii, 136, [2]pp., 18 plates (7 coloured), orig. full vellum binding, lettered in gilt, some light spotting and small nick to spine.
8vo., Fifth Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 folding maps (a few short tears); black cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. Substantially updated version of the original edition of 1848. Enser, p.34.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces and 5 engraved plates, some minimal spotting and staining; mid-nineteenth century half calf, backs gilt extra with double roan labels, speckled edges, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed else a most attractive and very clean copy. Pargellis and Medley, 3299.
394 p. fold. map bound in at front repaired. Hardcover Very good conditon in full blind stamped leather front hinge starting
Clear, bright and tight. K. Used
First edition, 4to, viii, 238pp., 28 plates, 28 plates, orig. publishers red cloth, lettered in gilt, a very good copy.
First edition, 4to, xxii, [2], 387pp., a very good ex-library copy, plates throughout, orig. publishers blue cloth.
Cover: Princess Elizabeth's Last Public Engagement in Scotland Before Her Marriage: Launching the Caronia. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Austrian Requiem": by Kurt Von Schuschnigg; Aftermath of War: Walter Lippmann and American Foreign Policy (inc. map); The World of Science: This Year's Scarcity of Wasps; Notes for the Novel-Reader; The World of Theatre; Books of the Day; and The Valley of the UnKnown: A Unique and Self-Created Civilisation Revealed in the Borderlands Between India and Tibet. Pictorial Journals include: Their Majesties in Devon and Cornwall: Incidents of the Royal Tour; A Fair State Torn With Rebellion: Beautiful But Distracted Kashmir; Srinagar and Its Surroundings: Views of the "Venice of the East"; The "Modern Vermeer" Picture Trial: (Han) Van Meegeren and His Work in Court; Royal Honeymoon Houses in New Forest and Highland Surroundings; The Royal Wedding: A Miscellany of Relevant Events and Items; El Alamein Day in the Desert; Air Achievement and Fire Destruction; Stated to Be "Overwhelmingly Against Trusteeship": South West Africa; Buckingham Palace From the Air; Finished and Accurate to Two-Millionths of an Inch: California's Giant 200-Inch Telescope Mirror; From Isaac Oliver to Cosway: Some Rockliff Collection Miniatures; Tudor Silver for the Victoria and Albert Museum; Exquisite French Furniture; Apa Tani Justice: Private and Public; A Unique People in a Primitive Paradise; Where Neolithic Cultivation Methods Support a Himalayan People in Plenty; The Unknown Valley: Social Types and Rural Customs of a Unique Civilization; Religion and Sport in the Unknown Valley; and The Apa Tani People: Their Homes and Customs. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
4 works in 1 vol., sm. 4to., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces and 4 engraved title-vignettes, endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; strongly bound in contemporary cloth, back with original leather label lettered ('Odds & Ends, etc.') and ruled in gilt, a very good, crisp, clean copy. FROUDE (J.A.) The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character [with] BROWN (J) The Enterkin [with] ANON. Sheep-Farmers and Drovers [with] BROWN (J) Minchmoor. Froude, best known for his History of England, delivered the first work as an address before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh on 3rd November 1865. The third work is sub-titled 'Sketches of Highland Character'. All four works were published in Edmonston & Douglas' series 'Odds and Ends'. First Editions of all works in this series are scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with title in green and black, green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to foot of spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Guide to the Scottish Island.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 308pp. The biography of the footballer from Aberdeen who in the 1960s was the king of Old Trafford.
pp. 8, 11-344, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] Engraved Frontis, title page and 5 full page plates. Illustrations designed by John Gilbert and engraved by Albert W. Graham. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. A few signatures loose and one plate. Early manuscript inscription 'Miss Helen Himes (New Oxford, PA?) from her father I.D.L. Penciled initials on title. Penciled vocabulary notations throughout. Ruled in black throughout. Text and plates well foxed. 235 mm. Original leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Rubbed and worn. Beveled edges. Raised bands. Original leather spine labels. Hardbound. Good. Scott first wrote his influential poem, 'The Lady of the Lake', in 1810, drawing on the romance of the Authurian legend, but with an entirely different story set around Loch Katrine in the Trossachs of Scotland. PAIMP 21
(18) Leaves. Printed on one side of leaf except the first and last. Illustrated by James D. Smillie (1833-1909). Inked signatures on title page. Mildly XLib. Original penciled drawings on rear fly leaf. All edges gilt. Small square 8vo. 19 cm. Original full green cloth binding. Scottish thistle decoration in black and gold on front board. Title printed in black over gold. XLib. Beveled edges. Extremities lightly worn with slight loss. Early ownerships on title. Rear flyleaf has drawings by Arthur S. Veit, dated 5/14/1899, showing a military cadet with rifle in profile, and the head of a young lady with hat. Arthur Stobo Veit (1884-1912), son of a manager of the Standard Oil Company, attended Montclair Military College, Pennsylvania Military Academy, and the Hill School before going to Columbia as part of the Class of 1907. These drawings were probably done while he was at the PA Military Academy. He left Columbia in 1905 to join the Standard Oil Company. In 1912 he committed suicide on a New York street, the cause of his distrees was a great mystery at the time - and remains so today. POETRY BOX 4
