Search Results: Titles starting with C from Blacket Books

London: Putnam, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A very good copy in a fair dustwrapper which has been sellotaped at the spine ends. 222 pages. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations. This is the story of the Central Flying School which was formed in 1912 to train the world's first military pilots.

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Pp.xiv,894. The collection comprises 135 pieces, mainly essays but with a few letters, short stories etc. many of which would be difficult to find otherwise. Photographs available on request.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is now protected in a clear removable sleeve. Some top edge foxing but internally clean with no ownership inscription, no foxing and no other marking. 188 pages. Map. Not one of Tranter's usual Scottish historical novels but "a story of high endeavour, adventure, intrigue and love, played out amongst the terrors and appalling beauty of the Roof of the World." Photographs available on request.

London: Portland Gallery, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper which has a little creasing at top of spine. 112 pages. Numerous colour illustrations including some full page. This is the first book to be devoted entirely to the life and work of Francis Cadell one of Scotland's most important and influential artists of the 20th century.

Thurso: The Pentland Press. First Edition Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. Nd. 1970's? A very good copy. 40 pages. Three maps. This is a reprint from the First Statistical Account of Scotland edited by Sir John Sinclair. Includes a "series forward" and an Introduction.

Thurso: The Pentland Press. First Edition Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. Nd. 1970's? A very good copy. Small ownership label. 34 pages. Map. Illustration. This is a reprint from the First Statistical Account of Scotland edited by Sir John Sinclair. Includes a "series forward" and an Introduction.

Reay: Margaret J. MacLaren. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. Nd. c.1980? A very good copy. Small ownership label. Signed "With best wishes Magreay." 35 poems in the Caithness dialect. Sketches by Martin Savage.

London: Viking Club, 1910. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in dark blue cloth. Includes a section of Vol. I Part III, (pages 49-64) covering the years 1282 to 1296; and a section (or the whole) of Vol. I, Part IV (pages 65-208) covering the years 1296 to 1422. Includes a translation into English of documents in Latin.

London: Skilton & Shaw, 1979. First Edition . A very good copy in laminated boards. 112pp. Plates. Drawings by Elliot Rudie.

Thurso: The Pentland Press. First Edition Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. Nd. 1970's? A very good copy. 36 pages. Map. Illustration. This is a reprint from the First Statistical Account of Scotland edited by Sir John Sinclair. Includes a "series forward" and an Introduction.

Stornoway.: An Lanntair, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Softback. Large 4to. A near fine copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 80 pages. A celebration in prose and photographs of the standing stones of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis described as "the most imaginative and informative publication ever produced about this great Neolithic site."Contributions by Kenneth White, Ian Crichton Smith, Duncan MacMillan and Margaret and Ronald Curtis.

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy. Stamp of a private library on front end-paper but no other markings. Pp.xxxv,456.

Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 437 pages. Writs in Latin have an English translation.

Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1967. First Edition . A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 287pp. 5 pedigree tables. Letters written between 1533 and circa 1700.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1970. Third Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper which shows some edge wear. Gift inscription on front end-paper. 157 pages. A collection of short stories set on Orkney.

Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 2023. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback.. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xxix,[i],982. One colour plate. This voluume of the series covers the pontificate of Pope Paul 111. It covers the period of England's "rough wooing" of Scotland and "helps to fill in some of the detail of our picture of the Scottish church in the years leading up to the Reformation.

London: H.M.S.O., 1912. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's dark blue cloth with title in gilt on spine and embossed on front and rear boards.Supplementary Close Rolls, Welsh Rolls and Scutage Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office prepared under the superintendence of The Deputy Keeper of the Records A.D. 1277-1326. pp.ix. 552. This is a nice tight clean copy.

London: Strathmore Publishing, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. 144 pages. Numerous illustrations including colour. This is the story of the author's grandparents and their familes, the Mcnaughtons from Scotland and the Kitsons from Yorkshire, from 1685 up to the author's birth in 1925.

Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. 144 pages. Many illustrations.

Norfolk: Frontier Publishing, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is untorn and not price-clipped. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Stamped "Review Copy" on title page. 176 pages. 32 photographs. 2 maps. The story of a journey made in 1986 across West Tibet to Kashgar.