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A very smart, and uncommon, abridged, complete single volume edition, of John Jamieson's important work on the language of Scotland. Jamieson's Sco...

A very scarce set of 'The Enid Blyton Literary Society Journal', which changed its name to 'The Enid Blyton Society Journal' from issue 9 onwards. ...

A very scarce set of 'Green Hedges' magazine for Enid Blyton lovers, described as "The Newsletter especially for the collector of Enid Blyton Books...

A very substantial Victorian set of Jamieson's classic dictionary of the Scottish language. The set essentially comprises 4 Volumes, each divided i...

A very smart copy of Brewer's Phrase and Fable, which is a rather wonderful publication which explains the origins of many famous phrases, includin...

The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: For Oct. 1803......Jan. 1804. To be continued Quarterly. Vol III (contains issues V and VI). With many d...

Bibliography of Early English Literature, in eight volumes, complete. By William Carew Hazlitt. 1961 reprint of books originally published between ...

Days with the Great Writers; A Day with Robert Louis Stevenson, by Maurice Clare. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London. No stated edition, but...

A scarce early copy of this edition of Robert Burns' poetry. Two volumes bound as one. Printed by J. Crerar, Kirkaldy, 1802. First edition thus. Sc...

The National Burns, Edited by Rev. George Gilfillan, Including The Airs of All the Songs and an Original Life of Burns, by the Editor. Essentially ...

The text is in very good The Old Glasgow Club was founded in 1900 and is still very much in existence today, bringing together those interested in ...

Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, 1918 & A Child's Garden of Verses, With an Introduction by And...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

The Children of Dickens. By Samuel McChord Crothers. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. Repr...

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by the Author. SOLD Kipling's classic stories of animal tales such as 'How the Camel got his Hump'...

The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller. Edited by Augustus Muir. Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. A scarce copy of Scottish writer...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Published as a 'souvenir' to commemorate the National Celebration at Edinburgh of the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott. Pictorial Illustr...

The Poets and Poetry of Scotland; From the Earliest to the Present Time. Comprising Characteristic Selectionds from the Works of the More noteworth...

Camden's Britannia 1695; A Facsimile of the 1695 Edition Published by Edmund Gibson. With an introduction by Professor Stuart Piggott, and a Biblio...

The Merry Muses of Caledonia, by Robert Burns. Edited by James Barke, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, with a Prefatory Note and some authentic Burns Text...

Original typed letter signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903. SOLD A rather splendid letter signed by Rudyard Kipling and typed o...

The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford. In Eight Volume...

The Works of William Shakspere; Imperial edition. Edited by Charles Knight, With Illustrations on Steel, 4 Volumes. RESERVED Published by Virtue &a...

English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions Exhibited in 1947 at 7 AldemarleStreet, London. Compiled and Revised by John H...

Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...

The Handbook for Jamaica for 1925; Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island, Compiled from Official and Oth...

A Clyack-Sheaf by Hugh MacDiarmid, Not for Publication; Uncorrected Proof. Includes a signed letter from William McCreadie, dated 22nd April 1969) ...

Akros, Special Hugh MacDiarmid double issue, August 1977. Published by Akros Publications, Preston. Volume 12, Numbers 34 & 35, published simul...

The Works of Lord Byron. A New, Revised and Enlarged edition with Illustrations. 13 Volumes Complete. 7 Volumes of Poetry edited by Ernest Hartley ...