Place-names of Lewis and Harris, by MacIver, Donald - 1934

Cambridge Univ. Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; England; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1815. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Calcutta: Government Printing, India. Very Good-. 1909. Hardcover. A scarce publication examining the actual state of education in India at the beginning of the twentieth century. Paper covered boards, black cloth corners & spine with gilt lettering. Texts tight, clean & intact: no foxing. Vol #1 : 168pp. : 9 large fold-out maps plus statistical tables. Vol #2: (iv) 338pp text (xi; index) . Spine ends rubbed, covers lightly soiled & original owner's signature in both volumes. ; B&W Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 506 pages .

Westminster: Printed for The Camden Society, 1884 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. XIV, 300pp, bound in original brown cloth, with blind stamped borders. ASSOCIATION COPY - From the personal collection of Francis M. O'Brien, author and Legendary Maine Bookseller (no markings). ALSO signature of "David Baird Smith" on the ffp. Covers show bumped corners, edge wear/tear to top/heel of backstrip. Pencil notations on back free endpaper. BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. Scottish History.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xxx, 130. The Godkin lectures at Harvard University in 1970. Inscribed by the author for V. S. Pritchett.

Melbourne, Australia: The Henry George Foundation, January 1942. Second Edition. Paperback. Second edition, first printing. Near fine condition. This is a wartime reprint of extracts from two Churchill speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 4 May 1909 and at King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 July 1909. This pamphlet was first published as "The Menace of Land Monopoly" by the Henry George foundation in 1941. In 1942 the pamphlet was retitled and republished as "On Human Rights". The publisher's introductory note states: "In now publishing these extracts it is hoped that Mr. Churchill's eloquent and emphatic criticism of the present Land System will not be lost sight of in the post-war reconstruction for a New Social Order of which so much is being heard." The pamphlet measures 7.125 inches tall x 4.75 inches wide. It is sixteen pages in length with stapled cream colored card wraps. The front cover bears a decidedly resolute head and shoulders image of Churchill. This copy is crisp and bright.… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1935, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 250. (Hardcover) 285pp. plus [48] photographs. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, bevelled edges, color frontispiece, index, photographs. This is the Special Canadian Edition which is taken from the plates of the British edition. The copyright page lists two separate editions of which it is not clear that this copy is from: the second Impression of the Presentation Edition, and the sixth impression of the People's Edition. The spine is darkened and worn at the top and bottom. Also writes as Lord Tweedsmuir. Book about George V--King of England. (History--England).

London, Oxford University Press, 1965, hardcover, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, gift inscription (non-authorial) to front endpaper, slight edge and corner wear, slight fading to board edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest of edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. An adventure story for young readers set in Roman Britain. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Charles Keeping

Elgin, Great Britain: J.D. Yeadon, 1929 In VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Good Condition, protected in a mylar cover. Complete with 6 plates, showing the Regimental flags, Captain James Colquhoun, cap worn by the Grenadier Company, Officer's Regimental belt-plate, Grenade device for cap & "the Big Drum". 79pp in original cloth binding. Dust jacket has light foxing, darkening, edge chips/tears. Pages have occasional light foxing. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. Includes a List of Officers.

Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1983, hardcover, x-175 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, previous owners name stamp to front endpaper and title page, spot to top of text block near spine, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket, light edge nicks, fading to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The Canadian statesman and author of The Siren Years, An Appetite for Life, and Diplomatic passport presents his final book of memoirs covering his final two postings in diplomatic service, as Canadian High Commissioner to London, and as Canadian Ambassador to Washington during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. ISBN 9780771597824

London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1764. Fine. [2],403-407,[1] p.; 33 cm. (folio). Three stab-holes, but no other evidence that this was ever bound. Edges are untrimmed. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Nineteenth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1761., in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Fifteenth Day of November, 1763, being the Third Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut historiated initial at the beginning of the act. In order to increase the supply of hemp and flax for the production of sail cloth and cordage, needed by the Royal Navy and the merchant marine, this act granted a bounty to those who brought those materials from the American colonies to England. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.