Search Results: Titles starting with O from Byre Books

Granta London, 2000 Writers from John Updike to Patti Smith on character actors - 'autobiography, film-buffery and Americana'. VG 284pp

John Murray 1933 HB Reprint. Blind-stamped blue cover, rather worn and marked, spine faded, one page badly edge-worn, pages yellowing, good only. 319pp 0

Edinburgh/Montreal: John Donald Publishers/McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998 The folk-culture of the Hebridean settlers in eastern Quebec, a scholarly study of folklore and history, with transcriptions of interviews and detailed notes. VG, no inscriptions, in VG DJ, not price-clipped.

A R Mowbray & Co London 1910 HB New impression. Illustrated with 24 contemporary b/w photographs of the village. Green cloth covers worn and marked, gold lettering still bright, neat name to ffep, clean, tight and sound, good. 96pp 0

London: P S A S, 1948 An offprint from the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 3 text figures, 2 plates of axes, gouges and daggers. Good in lightly worn original grey card cover - presentation copy: 'With all best wishes from the author'.

JASM Melbourne 1999 PB Stapled booklet, VG. 96pp 0

Airdrie: Om Shiatsu Centre, 1997 Following the guidelines of the baseline curriculum of the Shiatsu Society, with some personal interpretations. Includes coloring charts to act as pictorial guide. Illustrative covers lightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good.

Pentland Press Edinburgh 1st, 1996 Chilling first novel. VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped, faint pencil marks to ffep. 131pp

Edinburgh: New Alliance Publications, 1951 A collection of poetry on Scottish themes. Blue cloth a little sunned and worn, generally VG in slightly chipped, edge-worn, mended, marked, good DJ.

London: David Stott, 1890 With facing Greek/English text, the translations, of the Chorus from plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, are by such poets as Elizabeth Browning, Robert Browning, A E Housman, Swinburne, Shelley and Oscar Wilde. Cream boards worn and marked, spine browned, chipped and split, gilt on top, no inscriptions, slight foxing throughout, good, no DJ.

Manchester: Fyfield Books Carcanet, 2006 Foreword by Frederic Raphael. VG, lightly marked on bottom right corner of cover. Latin printed to the left, English translation to the right. A close metrical translation of the four books of the Odes and the Centennial Hymn.

Nether Stowey: Odyssey, 1996 Poetry and prose. Light wear to covers, no inscriptions, generally VG.

Nether Stowey: Coleridge Cottage, 1996 An anthology of poetry. Covers marked and a little worn, internally clean and sound, no inscriptions, good.

Cambridge: University Press, 1975 Reprint. Text in Greek, notes in English. Pale blue cloth a little sunned, small name to ffep, no other inscriptions or annotation, generally VG, no DJ.

George Allen and Unwin 1946 PB Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray, with notes. Ex-lib, good. 0

1988 PB No publishing details. Poems. Stapled booklet, good. 21pp 0

Preston: Akros, 1977 Poems in Scots, from Realities. No. 20 in an edition of 125 signed by the author. Stapled booklet, light sunning to covers, generally VG.

London: Samuel French Humorous songs (without music). Name to front cover and small mark against one title (Glands), no other inscriptions, good. 0

Glasgow: Gowans and Gray, 1924 The English translation of a novel of adventure first published in Gaelic as An t'Ogha Mor no am Fearsgeoil air Uilinn. Dark green cloth a little worn and marked, titles dulled, no inscriptions, very slight foxing, clean, tight and sound, generally VG, no DJ.

Stirling Observer 1st 1906 hdbk Presentation copy signed by author "To Mr Les Begbie with compliments". Illustrated with 80 pen and ink drawings by the author, with an introductory chapter by John Honeyman, architect. Blind stamped red boards, with the 'Arms of the Regent 1572' on the front board, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, gold lettering to spine. Corners of boards bumped and hinges weak, but generally in good sound condition. 160pp 0