Folklore/Mythology Scottish

Richard Drew Glasgow Reprinted 1990 PB. Forty Folk-tales from all around Scotland are collected and retold in this companion volume to her Scottish Tales. Signed by the Author. VG 192pp. more information

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Tuckwell Press Phantassie 1997 PB. Reprint. The classic study of the tradition as oral literature and as ethnography, in North East Scotland. VG 326pp. more information

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David Nutt London 1st HB. Five vols spanning 1889 to 1895. Edited by Alfred Nutt. This is a classic collection of folk and hero tales, orally collected in the West Highlands by the Reverend D. Maclnnes, the Reverend James Macdougall and of course Lord Archibald Campbell himself. Not just tales of the Fianna but clan traditions, feuds, fables, local legends of Argyll, and the war dress of the Celt. Waifs and Strays is a miscellany of storytelling and an essential part of the work carried out by Nineteenth Century collectors. This is a first edition set, not a print-on-demand reprint. In Gaelic with English translation and English notes, index of Ossianic runs, incidents etc. Vol I has a library number to spine and a blind library stamp to two pages; the other vols have no library markings. All have wear to spine top and bottom, some marking to the tan linen boards, age-mottling to prelims, neat name to ffep, very occasional pencil Gaelic annotation, but are generally VG for age. Further details on request. more information

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Turnstone Press/Club Leabhar London/Inverness 1973 HB. A fine adult novel full of Celtic lore. VG in edge-worn but generally VG DJ 254pp. more information

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William Hodge and Company Glasgow 1st 1900 HB. Anecdotal incidents in Scottish history - of particular interest are the four chapters on 'The Pagan Faith of Scotland'. Yellow cloth, rather grubby, with red lion rampant, spine a trifle worn top and bottom, contemporary signature to ffep, some grubby marks to pages, generally VG, tight and sound 189pp. more information

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J M Dent & Company London 1902 HB. Scottish singer-songwriters of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including Lady Nairn, Mrs Cockburn, Jean Elliot and Lady Lindsay. Green cloth marked and worn, decoration to front cover, gold lettering and thistle motif to spine a little faded, gilt on top, no inscriptions, pages yellowed and slightly age-mottled, tissue-guarded frontis, all illus. present, clean, tight and sound, good. 200pp. more information

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Routledge & Kegan Paul London 1975 HB. Illustrated by Constance and Brian Dear, this is a splendid collection of children's games and songs gathered from all over Scotland. Boards a little sunned, name to front paste-down, o/w VG in edge-worn and slightly chipped good DJ. 210pp. more information

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Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh 1978 HB. Folk-songs and stories. Reading copy - ex lib, usual markings, FFEP removed, faint watermarking on the top of the pages, but text clean and clear. 106pp. more information

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Goblinshead Musselburgh 2000 PB. A gazetteer of sacred sites, and essays on some aspects of Scottish folklore, illustrated with b/w photographs. Mark to edge of page block, o/w VG. 198pp. more information

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Balnain Nairn 1994 PB. Ghost stories from a master-storyteller of the Scottish Travellers. Cover a little worn, generally VG. 179pp. more information

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Cambridge Univ Press HB. Fifteen tales from the acclaimed Traveller storyteller. Hard laminated illustrative covers, missing prelims including title page, o/w good. 80pp. more information

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