Search Results: Titles starting with V from Byre Books

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1899 A fine collection of traditional songs, many with music. Original blue cloth covers a little worn and marked, spine yellowed, gold lettering and decoration dulled but still legible, spine mended top and tail, eps yellowed, no inscriptions, tissue-guarded frontis., clean, tight and sound, good.

Edinburgh/London/Perth: John Menzies/Houlston & Sons/Cowan & Co, 1899 Aspects of Scottish life and landscape. Green cloth worn, rubbed and marked, name to prelims, two small ink marks to the table of contents, very occasional grubby marks, otherwise good.

Landy Publishing Staining 1991 PB Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, good. 40pp 0

Berkeley: New Earth, 1992 VG, no inscriptions.

Amber Lane Ashover 1979 PB VG 77pp 0

NV Uitgevers-mij 'Joost van den Vondel' Amsterdam HB Undated. Third printing. Tales of early Dutch travellers and explorers, with many contemporary b/w illustrations. Text in Dutch. Red cloth, gold lettering and illustration, worn and marked, splits to spine edge, name plate to front paste-down, much age-mottling to prelims, internally clean, tight and sound, good. no dj 261pp 0

Chennai: Duckbill, 2014 An unusual story for younger readers. VG, no inscriptions.

Hamlyn London 1992 HB, 1992 Illustrated reviews of the classic films. Laminated illustrative covers, no inscriptions, generally VG, no DJ. 128pp

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971 Problem Solvers series number 3. Good in lightly worn cover, text clean and clear. Neat name to inside cover.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1966 A concise account of the basic ideas of linear algebra, for undergraduates. Covers worn and marked, spine much worn, no inscriptions or annotation, corrigenda slip pasted in, good.

New Delhi , India: Navrang, 1993 Facsimile reprint of the 1911 Cambridge edition. This ethnographic study covers all aspects of life of these forest people of Sri Lanka. Profusely illustrated with 15 text figures and 72 photographs. Good, worn boards in chipped DJ, pages smell a little of tobacco. Neat inscription on FFEP.

El Arquero Madrid 1968 PB Third edition. Biographical and critical essays on the artist from the Spanish philosopher. In Spanish. Yellow covers a little worn and marked, no inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good. 259pp 0

London: University Tutorial Press, 1969 In the series The Palatine Classics. The last book of the Aeneid, single combat between Aeneas and Turnus. Latin text, English notes and introductory chapters. Covers a little sunned, otherwise VG, no inscriptions or annotation.

Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group. Dundee and Edinburgh 1981 PB Omnibus edition reprint collecting the first three issues of 1975, 1976 and 1977. Mostly relating to short news items and surveys being carried out in the matter of steadings in Midlothian, use of colour on external buildings and a brief report of the first season excavations at Polmadd abandoned fermtoun in Kirkcudbrightshire etc. Stapled booklet, VG. 36pp 0

Cambridge: University Press, 1935 The prosecution of a corrupt governor of Sicily. Latin text, English notes. A little wear to boards and spine edges, name to ffep, faint traces of occasional erased pencil annotation, tight and sound, good.

La revue de l'economie sociale Paris 1990 PB A publication taking forward the ideas of 'The Other Economic Summit' of 1989. In French VG 230pp 0

Whitechapel, 1986 With a biographical and critical essay by Lynne Cooke, an interview with the artist by John McEwen, some of the artist's writings, 22 pages of coloured plates, a catalogue of the exhibition, biography and bibliography. Covers a little marked and sunned, no inscriptions, good.

Methuen London 1971 pbk Essays by Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, GBS, Archer, Max Beerbohm and many others, arranged in sections: Actors; Theatres and audiences; melodrama; society drama; comedy; Ibsen; pantomime and music hall; the critic. Good. 372pp 0

London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973 A detailed monograph on the technical virtuosity of Victorian engravers with a description of the V&A's exhibition and 108 plates. The stamp of the Gleniffer Press to the first three pages but no other inscriptions, clean, tight and sound, good.

London: Essex Music Ltd, 1965 Collected and arranged from broadside ballads produced between 1800 and 1860, with contemporary melodies. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, good.