Search Results: Scots & Scotland from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, 198, [1] pp. Extremities rubbed, small stain on bottom edge, owner's name on recto of ffep. DJ spine slightly faded, light edge-wear; in Brodart archival cover. According to the Glasgow Herald, this is "marvelously exact and evocative . . . A book full of the spirit, scent and landscape of Scotland in the uneasy 'thirties'." From the DJ: "Iain Hamilton has surrendered to his 'Highland half' in this memorable recapturing of his earliest years in Glasgow from the age of about four until he became seventeen. Using the most ordinary details of daily living--'a good, Scotch rose,' rambles and discussions with his beloved grandfather, trips to the farms where his cousins lived, youthful battles in the school playground, the onset of adolescence and the first terrifying encounters with 'women'--the… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, 188 pp, 8 ff b & w collotype plates, index. Spine slightly cocked, boards darkening a bit along top & bottom edges, "All rights reserved" blackened out on copyright page. DJ has chips & tears to 1 cm, mostly along top edge, rear panel lightly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. The lairds were country gentry, this book being "...a cursory history of this class, and close-up studies of a few representative specimens of it from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth." Collotype is a low-volume, photographic process that does not use a screen, and hence is capable of reproducing with the greatest accuracy photos, drawings, paintings, or prints such as the mezzotint portrait facing p. 128. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 22 X 14 cm.

Cleveland, OH & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, pale blue titles on spine, 238 pp, glossary. Moderately rubbed, white stain near top edge of front board, paper clip & owner's name on ffep. These short stories are set in the Western Isles, where the author spent her summers to the age of nineteen. Collected from the Christian Science Monitor. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart, 1889 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, vii, 261 pp. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, spine ends beginning to fray. Scarce collection of Gaelic writings by 18 identified authors and two anonymous pieces. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). . G+/No dj. 19 X 13½ cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, xii, 276 pp, map, 4 photos, index. Lightly rubbed and faded; there is a bit of offsetting from photos onto facing pages, a couple of leaves creased at corner. From the preface: "...it is meant primarily to be informative, and every Diaspora Scot who reads it carefully will know more about the Homeland than most Homeland Scots ever trouble to learn." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son, Ltd., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Folding map showing patterns of 96 different tartans identified by clan, with map of Scotland showing locations of clans. Also an index tying family name to clan name. Shipping weight 4 oz. in envelope.. Map. G+/No dj.