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First separate edition, 15, [1]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
in-16 broché, couverture illustree. Bon état. [LP-6*]
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
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. 53pp. Pictorial history of the Glasgow district of Townhead, demolished in the mid-1960s to become an interchange on the M8 motorway. Well captioned with much descriptive history of the area. Scarce.
Minor shelfwear. ; 9.7 X 6.9 X 0.2 inches; 48 pages
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.
No marks or inscriptions. A few very tiny creases to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub to front and no bumping to corners. 49pp. Local history of Old Gretna, just inside Lowland Scotland's border with England. Essentially photographs with extensive captions to each.
2 vols., illus. Hardcover Very good condition; green spines faded
8vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates by Sir D. Y. Cameron; cloth, gilt back, covers a little age-marked and rubbed else a good, sound copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, with a copy of the original 4pp prospectus bound in at end.
First Edition, half-title, [2], 51, [1]pp., disbound. On the resignation of the Earl of Chesterfield as Secretary of State, due to a difference of opinion on foreign policy, in bringing the continental war to an end.
First Edition, no half-title, 33, [1] pp., disbound. Bill of April 7, 1747, enacted 20 Geo.ii.c.43.
2 leaves, 4to., on laid paper, with a fine plate engraved on wood, last leaf of text supplied in photo-facsimile; uncut, disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'.The plate, eminently suitable for framing, depicts the West Front of Brechin Church, with three smaller figures inset
20x14. 1188p. Ilstr. L. Goñi. Enc. Cart. Ed.
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
ix p., 1 l., 85, [1] p. 18 cm. Hardcover Very good condition , leather spine, edges rubbed Author's first book
in-8, 219 p., ill. h.t. n., tabl., broché, couv. ill. Bon état [CA-12]
POITIERS, Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie - 1935 - Broché - .25,5x16,5 - Couverture bleue au texte imprimé en noir - 293 pages - Propre
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. 215pp. The author tells the story of his family over 400 years, an account which could stand for a history of the Scottish working class over this time period, culminating in his father who became a knight of the realm.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Unpaginated. 4 7/8"w x 7 1/2"h. Color photographs throughout.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean map with bright unmarked outer covers. 1pp. Opens up to map sise 38.75 x 27.5 inches. Mao and charts of all Scotland's Munros and Corbetts.
Thomas Muir campaigned relentlessly for civil rights for his fellow Scots which got him deported to Australia, from where he escaped on a ship bound for America. Eventually he returned to Europe where he continued his campaign for constitutional reform ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 212 pages
Reliure percaline de l'éditeur. 179 pages. Nombreuses annotations au crayon.
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. 48pp. Pictorial history of Glasgow in the tram era with captions.
No marks or inscriptions to contents which are in 'fine' condition. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with with 'print-through' effect from inside cover pages on otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Well captioned photographs of Glasgow's trams and tramways.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 48pp.