Search Results: Authors starting with B from Byre Books

London and Otley: Walker's Humorous Dialogues Undated - 1899? No165 in this series. Staples rusty, creases to illustrative covers, name to front cover, some pen marks, fair. 0

Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co ltd From the Glenshee Scottish Country Dancing Club, Glasgow. Betty's Wedding, Bonnie Glenshee, The Road to the Isles, Mairi's Wedding, Lad O'Kyle, and The Winding Road. Small stapled pamphlet.

London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1970 Biographical and philosophical. Includes a glossary. Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, VG.

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998 History, political theory and sociology - responses to Caesar from classical times to the nineteenth century. VG, no inscriptions, in slightly sunned VG DJ.

BAFTA London 2004 PB A glossy snapshot of the current British Film industry. VG 290pp 0

Friends of the Whithorn Trust 1996 PB Layers of scriptural meaning behind stone-carvings at Minnigaff and Kilmorie; and amended dating for a carving at Wamphrey. The fourth Whithorn Lecture 1995. Stapled booklet, VG. 20pp 0

London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1962 One act play, 2f, 2m. Drowned, or with the spirits of the sea? Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993 The Pacific island of Tonga. VG, no inscriptions, in VG DJ.

Oliphants London HB Undated. In The Children's Missionary Series. A colonial, missionary view of Africa. With eight coloured plates. Brown decorated cloth a little worn and marked, presentation label to front paste-down, tight and sound, good in chipped and worn good DJ. 95pp 0

London: Samuel French, 1945 A short, powerful religious piece. Stapled booklet, covers marked, no inscriptions, good.

Sidgwick & Jackson London 1927 PB Good. 32pp 0

Richard Bentley and Son London 1881 HB 'From the earliest times to the Commonwealth',' From the Restoration to Garrick', 'The Garrick Period', 'The Kemble period', 'The Kean and Macready period'. Dark green cloth, gold lettering and embossed design, spine worn top and bottom, internally VG 460pp 0

Kirkconnel: Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society, 2006 Memories of childhood in Galston, South Ayrshire, nursing in Glasgow and life in Orkney. Illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

Wigtown: AWB, 2018 13 short stories introduce 26 lovers, who meet again at an idyllic summer wedding. VG.

Wigtown: AWB, 2016 ' - born of the wild root-stock below the grafted bud'. A collection of poetry. VG.

London: G Bell & Sons, 1948 Reprint. Part one: the straight line and circle. Brown cloth marked and a little sunned, no inscriptions or annotation, generally VG.

BBC Books London 1st edition 1996 HB The Land, sex in the classroom, forgiveness of child murder, prejudice, are some of the topics examined in this "searching and thought-provoking" book. VG in Good DJ 253pp 0

Wigtown: GC Books, 2010 Reprint. An early aviator, lost in an attempt to fly the Atlantic. Signed by the author to the title page. Light wear to illustrative covers, no other inscriptions, generally VG.

Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies/Edina Press, 1982 Essays first presented to a conference in Thurso 1979: Donald Oman, The Making of the Caithness Landscape; Edward J Cowan, Caithness in the Sagas; Colleen Batey, The Late Norse Site of Freswick; Barbara E Crawford, Scots and Scandinavians in Medieval Caithness 1266 - 1375; W F H Nicolaisen, Scandinavians and Celts in Caithness, the place-name evidence; Geoffrey Stell, Some Small Farms and Cottages in Latheron Parish; John Porter, An Introduction to the Caithness Flagstone Industry; Jean Dunlop, Pulteneytown and the Planned Villages of Caithness; John R Baldwin, Fishing the Sellag: hand-netting traditions; and Donald Grant, Poems. Illustrative covers slightly foxed, generally VG.

Dumfries: Robert Dinwiddie & Co, 1957 Essays and short stories, some on Dumfriesshire subjects. Very light wear to brown cloth, foxing to prelims, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good in lightly marked and edge-worn, mended, good DJ.