SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH

Gowdspink in Reekie

Macdonald Publishers. 1974. Soft cover. No. 146 of an edition limited to 600. Loosely laid in is another poem by Sydney Goodsir Smith: The Twa Brigs. Sewn booklet in wraps, covers sunned, otherwise clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 13566

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: Scottish, Scotland, poetry, poems Poetry

BEVERLEY BALLIN SMITH AND IAIN BANKS, EDS.

In the Shadow of the Brochs: The Iron Age in Scotland

Tempus. 2002. (ISBN: 075242517x). Soft cover. Illustrative covers a little worn and creased, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 13811

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 075242517x Scottish, Scotland, archaeology, archeology Archaeology

SMITH, WALTER A

An Invitation to the Road: The Hill Paths, Drove Roads & 'Cross Country' Routes in Scotland from the Cheviots to Sutherland

Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace. 1924. Soft cover. An early classic of distance walking in Scotland. First edition. Limp cloth covers worn, stained and marked, name to ffep, stain to lower margin, very occasional minor pencil marking, sound, good only. Good.

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Book number: 11926

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, TRAVEL Travel

HANCE D SMITH

The Making of Modern Shetland

Shetland Times. 1977. Soft cover. The economic and social history of the islands. Stapled booklet, illustrative covers slightly marked and worn, name plate (of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone) to the half title, generally VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13883

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: Scottish, Scotland, Zetland, local history Local history Economics

SMITH, R A

The Scotish Minstrel - a Selection from the Vocal Melodies of Scotland Ancient and Modern Vol III

J Purdie Edinburgh HB. Hardcover. Undated - 19th century. Fourth edition. Title engraving shows a kilted youth. Traditional songs arranged for voice and piano. Volume 3 only. Dark green cloth marked and worn, spine strengthened with japanese paper, no inscriptions, hinges loose but holding, pages age-mottled, yellowed and with occasional grubby marks, good. 108pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 8653

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH, SCOTTISH MINSTREL, SONG, MUSIC, BALLAD

SMITH, DONALD ED.

The Scottish Stage

Candlemaker Press Edinburgh 1st 1994 PB. (ISBN: 1899420002). Soft cover. Essays calling for a National Theatre for Scotland, with contributions by Boswell, Byatt, Cameron, Campbell, Gray, Hendry, Linklater, McKail, Scott, Smith and Stevenson. Stapled booklet, VG. 0. Very Good.

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Book number: 6223

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 1899420002 SCOTTISH NATIONAL THEATRE Theatre

HANCE SMITH, NEW INTRODUCTION

The Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Truck System (Shetland)

Thuleprint. 1978. (ISBN: 0906191076). Hardcover. No 1 of an edition limited to 100 hand-bound copies. A facsimile reprint of the HMSO report of 1872. Gold lettering to the cloth spine, marbled boards, small name label (of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone) to the ffep, very slight foxing to prelims and edge of page block, generally VG, in removable plastic jacket. Very Good.

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Book number: 13840

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 0906191076 Scottish, Scotland, history, politics, local history Local history Politics

SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH

The Vision of the Prodigal Son

M Macdonald. 1960. Soft cover. A poem commissioned by the BBC for the bicentenary of the birth of Robert Burns. Card covers very slightly marked, name to ffep, otherwise VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13568

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: Scottish, Scotland, poetry, poems Poetry

SMITH, SYDNEY

West of Scotland Rambles

Richard Drew Glasgow 1982 PB. (ISBN: 0904002233). Soft cover. A useful guide to Glasgow and environs. Covers a little scratched, pages yellowed and mottled, good, 142pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 6728

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 0904002233 SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, RAMBLING, WALKING, GUIDE-BOOK

DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

2004 Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society

Dumfries, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 2004. Soft cover. Third Series Volume LXXVIII. Includes articles on Bog Bodies by John Pickin, and The Rookeries of Dumfriesshire 2003. Good in lightly marked green card cover, VG internally. Good.

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Book number: 12448

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY, DUMFRIES , GALLOWAY SCOTTISH SCOTLAND Archaeology Local history

DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

2005 Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society

Dumfries, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 2005. Soft cover. Third Series Volume LXXIX. Includes articles on Bronze Age settlement at Ross Bay Kirkcudbright, and Excavation of a Bronze Age Barrow at Duncow. VG in very lightly marked green card cover, VG internally. Good.

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Book number: 12449

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY, DUMFRIES , GALLOWAY SCOTTISH SCOTLAND Archaeology Local history

PERTH AND KINROSS FABIAN SOCIETY

The Acreocracy of Perthshire - Who Owns Our Land?

Perth and Kinross Fabian Soc. Blairgowrie PB. Soft cover. Undated - but 1960's? - a pamphlet investigating land-ownership in Perthshire. Stapled booklet, good. 20pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 4163

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, LAND RIGHTS

SPENCE, RHODA

Reading by Lamplight - a Scottish Bedside Book

The Orkney Press Kirkwall 1st. 1991. (ISBN: 0907618278). Soft cover. Stories of Edinburgh, Orkney and places in between, by the editor, for twentythree years, of Scotland's Magazine, the daughter of Lewis Spence. Signed 'To dear Percy from Rhoda and Claire' (Claire being her younger sister, to whom the collection is dedicated). Corners very slightly bent, generally VG 145pp. Very Good. Signed by the editors.

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Book number: 6083

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: 0907618278 ORKNEY, RHODA SPENCE, SCOTLAND'S MAGAZINE, SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND

SUE STANWORTH

From Red Lion to Ringford: A Brief Account of the History of Ringford

Dumfries and Galloway Council/Tongland Community Council. 2012. Soft cover. The Red Lion coaching inn on the road between Carlisle and Portpatrick became the village of Ringford in South West Scotland. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 13124

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, LOCAL HISTORY Local history

STELL, GEOFFREY ED.

Vernacular Building 1-3

Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group. Dundee and Edinburgh 1981 PB. Soft cover. Omnibus edition reprint collecting the first three issues of 1975, 1976 and 1977. Mostly relating to short news items and surveys being carried out in the matter of steadings in Midlothian, use of colour on external buildings and a brief report of the first season excavations at Polmadd abandoned fermtoun in Kirkcudbrightshire etc. Stapled booklet, VG. 36pp 0. Very Good.

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Book number: 7985

Catalogue: Scottish

Keywords: SCOTTISH VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, POLMADDY FERMTOUN,