PAISLEYS

Highland Dress

Glasgow, Paisleys Ltd. Hardcover. 12th edition. Undated, but the price list appendix is dated 1951. A catalogue of tweed costumes, kilts, and accessories for women, men and children, drawn against appropriate backgrounds. Inserted in a pocket in the back cover is a price-list. Maroon boards with silver sword and shield decoration, VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 11936

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, COSTUME

ROBERT PATE

120 Scotch Poems of Robert Burns in His Own Dialect

Wigtown, G. C. Books Publishers. 1997. Hardcover. A curiosity. 'Correcting' the bard's Scots, into Ayrshire dialect. Laminated gray covers, sticker ghost to the front board, no inscriptions, generally VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13327

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: Scottish, Scotland, poetry, poems Poetry

PENMAN, ALASTAIR

More Stewartry Sketches

The Forward Press Castle Douglas 2nd 1988 PB. Hardcover. Historical tales from Dumfriesshire, about the tinker chief Billy Marshall leading the Levellers against the stone walls of C18 enclosure, Covenanting martys, the literary smuggler Dirk Hatteraick and his real-life counterpart, as well as ghosts, murders and Robert the Bruce. Ex-lib, in hard laminated illustrative library binding, clean and sound, good. 40pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 8718

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, DUMFRIES, GALLOWAY, BILLY MARSHALL, ROBERT DE BRUS, JACK YAWKINS, COVENANT, RINGCROFT, MURDER HOLE

PENMAN, ALASTAIR

Some Stewartry Sketches

1987 HB. Hardcover. Second edition. Ex-lib in laminated illustrative library binding, clean ans sound, good. Tales of Dumfries and Galloway, on the history of Castle Douglas; Edward Bruce, Lord of Galloway; Mons Meg and the fall of the house of Douglas; Robert Maxwell, the Laird of Orchardton; Robert Paterson (Old Mortality); and Lag the persecutor of the Covenanters. 40pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 9151

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH, HISTORY, LOCAL COVENANTERS

EDITED BY SCOTT MONCRIEFF PENNEY

Handbook for Travellers in Scotland

London/Edinburgh, John Murray/Oliver & Boyd. 1900. Hardcover. Seventh edition. With fold-out maps throughout, a 23 page map section and 48 pages of advertisements. Original flexible red cloth a little worn and marked, map eps, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 12270

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, TRAVEL Travel

PETRIE, SIR CHARLES

The Jacobite Movement

Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1932 HB. Hardcover. The politics of Jacobitism, rather than the romance. Frontis. Green cloth, rather grubby cream spine, corners bumped, slight age-mottling, pages yellowed, good. 315pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 7422

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH, HISTORY, JACOBITES, BONNY PRINCE CHARLEY, PROTECTORATE, RESTORATION, CLAVERHOUSE, MONMOUTH, FIFTEEN, FORTYFIVE, CULLODEN, WHIGS, TORIES

J B PICK

The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction

Polygon. 1993. (ISBN: 0748661166). Soft cover. Slight wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13733

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 0748661166 Scottish, Scotland, literary criticism Literary criticism

STUART PIGGOTT, ILUSTRATED BY KEITH HENDERSON

Scotland Before History

London, Thomas Nelson. 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Excellent illustrations. Red cloth lightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, slight foxing throughout, sound, good, no DJ. Good.

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Book number: 13134

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY Archaeology

TOM POW, ED.

The Art of Ballads and Bards: An Anthology of Work by the Crichton Writers and Art by Sheila Mullen

Crichton Writers. 2006. Soft cover. Poems and paintings. Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13321

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: Scottish, Scotland, poetry, poems, art Poetry Art

ILLUS. ALISON PRINCE, ED. MARY BAXTER, INTRO. EDWIN MORGAN

The Voice Within - Pushkin Prize - Winning Entries from Scotland and Russia 1989 - 1998

The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland Glasgow 1999 HB. (ISBN: 0953459608). Hardcover. An anthology of poems and prose from secondary school children in Scotland and Russia, with a foreword from Pushkin's great-great-granddaughter, Lady Butter. Ex-lib, in hard laminated illustrative library binding, clean and sound, good. 128pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 9159

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 0953459608 SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH, RUSSIA, RUSSIAN, POETRY, ANTHOLOGY, PUSHKIN PRIZE, CHILDREN, JUVENILE

MARY PRIOR

Fond Hopes Destroyed: Breach of Promise Cases in Shetland

Shetland Times. 2005. (ISBN: 1904746098). Soft cover. Social history drawn from the Shetland Archive. Very slight wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, small mark to ffep, generally VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13645

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 1904746098 Scottish, Scotland, Shetland, local history Local history

PRITCHARD, STANLEY

They Happened to Me

Saint Andrew Press Edinburgh 1st 1979 PB. (ISBN: 071520422x). Soft cover. Signed by the author to the half title page. Covers worn, clean, tight and sound, good. 204pp 0. Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 7991

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 071520422x SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH, BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TRUSTS, CHARITY, PHAB, FUNDRAISING, DEEPSEA SEAMANS' MISSION

GIBSON PUB.

Studies in Geography - Book III - Pictorial Scotland

Robert Gibson & Sons Glasgow PB. Soft cover. Undated but 1930's. A photographic record of contemporary Scotland, 'made entirely in Scotland, by Scots'. Ex-lib, stamps to title and last page, remains of label to title, good. 64pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 6773

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, GIBSON, GIBSON'S, GEOGRAPHY

POLLY PULLAR

A Drop in Tje Ocean: Lawrence Macewen and the Isle of Muck

Birlinn. 2014. (ISBN: 9781780272368). Soft cover. Signed to the title page by both MacEwen and Pullar, this is a unique portrait of a Hebridean island. VG, no other inscriptions. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 13552

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 9781780272368 Scottish, Scotland, biography, social history, local history, signed, inscribed Local history Signed

RAE, HUGH

The Rock Harvest

Constable London 1st 1973 HB. Hardcover. Signed by the author. VG in VG DJ (small mark on back left corner, slightly edge-worn, not price-clipped). 227pp 0. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 3427

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: MODERN FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, SCOTTISH, FICTION