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Brodick, Isle of Arran: Kilbrannan Publishing Limited, 1982. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12. N/a. Type: Z The 1982 facsimile reprint (second edition) of the 1914 first edition. This is copy number 55 of a limited edition of 1000. A very good, clean, tight, bright set in original publisher's red cloth boards - gilt embossed to the spines and to the front boards. The tails of the spines bumped and a bump to the lower rear board corner of volume I. The heads of the spines are a little bumped along with several board corners. A very good, clean, tight, bright two volume set.
The Book of Arran - Archaeology by Balfour, J.A. (editor):
by Balfour, J.A. (editor):
The Book of Arran - Archaeology
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Limited edition to 550 copies. xiv, 295 pp. With tissue-guarded frontispiece & 53 plates. Folding map of Arran in pocket at rear. With many detailed line drawing illustrations throughout text. Contents: Introduction: The Building Up of the Island; Prehistoric Period: The Sepulchral Remains, Cup and Ring-Marked Rocks; Protohistoric Period: Viking Burials, Fortified and Domestic Sites, An Irish-Celtic Monastery; Historic Period: The King's Cave, Chapels and Sculptured Stones, On the Effigy of an Abbot at Shisken With a Note on the Forms of Vestments on West Highland Monuments; The Castles; The Holy Isle; Runic Inscriptions in the Cell of St. Molaise, Arran Place-names. Text clean throughout. Binding sound. Dark green eps. Hinges cracked internally. Heavy brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine labels. Gilt crest of Arran Society of Glasgow on front board. Top edge gilt. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
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- Publisher Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, The Arran Society of Glasgow, 1910.
- Keywords Isle of Arran, Scottish Archaeology, Arran Society of Glasgow
The book of Arran Volume I Archaeology and Volume II History and Folklore
by Balfour, J.A
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Book of Arran Archaeology
by BALFOUR, J.A. [editor]
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Glasgow: The Arran Society of Glasgow, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, no jacket. Good for age. Some wear to board edges and corners; rubbing/wear to covers; soiling to covers; bumping to corners; bumping to fore edge of front cover; some separation of cloth on back board near head of spine; some slanting to spine; wear/chipping/small tears to head and foot of spine; some slanting to spine; peeling, cracking, and rubbing to title and copyright paste downs on spine; page edges browned; some foxing to pages; couple of pencil marks to margins; some wear/small tears to deckle edges; fold out map is missing.
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