ALWYN JAMES - Other Men's Heroes: Scots Honoured on the World's Stamps

Edinburgh, Macdonald Publishers, 1982. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0904265544 Hardback Hardcover Other Men's Heroes: Scots Honoured on the World's Stamps.Used. 8vo. 23 x 15 cm. 173 pp. + 32 colour plates +[3] (blank) pp. B/w. illustrations of stamps in text. Original red cloth; gilt spine title. Dustwrapper. ISBN 0904265-54-4. First editionVG/ VG some foxing to endpapers. The text consists largely of short biographies of the famous Scots depicted: these are arranged in groups e.g. 'Explorers and Trail Blazers', 'Builders of New Nations', 'The Scottish Pen', etc.; includes dustjacket.