Glasgow: Mccorquodale & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. [1911]. Fifth Edition. Original Wraps. Cloth wrappers rubbed and worn with fraying at edges. Moderate rubbing to page edges. Gutters broken at endpapers. Internally good. No loose leafs. ; No date [1911]. 50 pages of text + 101 pages of music. Includes "Recipe for Scotch Haggis"; "The Dangers of Tea-Drinking"; "Smugglers and Smuggling"; "Scotch Whisky" by a Doctor of Medicine; 20 pages of "Local Anecdotes" (jokes) . Sponsored by "Old Smuggler" Scotch Whiskey. "... The book, as before, has no other a, bition than to be a short collection of familiar Scottish Songs, Highland Music, and humorous stories connected with Stirling and other parts of the Northern kingdom, interspersed with a few facts about Scotch Whisky. Here and there will be found such things as Recipes for Haggis, Scones, Porridge, and Oat-Cakes - in very truth, the book is a veritable Hotch-Potch. " Soft cloth wrappers with tartan illustration. Dimensions: 13 1/2" by 10 1/4". ; Folio .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4608
Title: The Gaelic Old Smuggler Hotch-Potch of Story, Song, & Music
Author: Mackenzie, J. Murray
Format/Binding: Original Wraps
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket
Edition: Fifth Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mccorquodale & Co.
Place of Publication: Glasgow
Date Published: [1911]
Keywords: Scotland Old Smuggler Whiskey Whisky Scotch Humor

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Folio: A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
Wrappers: The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...