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The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Library Edition. In Four Volumes. Offered here are Volumes one and two only, bound a...

Ward, Lock and Co.'s Popular Library of Literary Treasures. Edited by G.T. Bettany, M.A.; 4 volumes bound as one; On Decision of Character and On A...

Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland. By Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace. With ...

The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...

The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. S...

A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, upon original plans; designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most ...

The Story of Insect Life, by W. Percival Westell, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. With 138 Illustrations from Photographs by Messrs. H.W. Shepheard-Walwyn, M.A.; ...

Poems of Tennyson, including; 'The Princess', 'In Memoriam', 'Maud', 'Idylls of The King', 'Enoch Arden', etc. With an Introduction by T. Herbert W...

Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Definitive Edition.  Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1940. Would appear to be a first edition thus, fol...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, With Explanatory Notes, &c. By Thomas Moore. The "Albion" Edition.  Thom...

Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England. Two books bound as one. By Charles Dickens. SOLD Little Dorritt was originally released in serial...

Two volumes bound as one; The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living; In Which are Described The Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Vertue, and t...

The Amateur Gentleman; A Romance, by Jeffery Farnol, with Drawings by C.E. Brock, R.I. Published by Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., London. Und...

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...

Coridon's Song And Other Verses from Various Sources. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. A beautifully illust...

Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide and The Minor Poems, with Life of the Poet, by Sir Harris Nicolas. In three volumes, complete. ...

A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, with Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. To Which is Added, A Specimen of a...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, To Which is Added an Appendix, containing the Essay of the Late...

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

A biography of Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles; An Intimate and Autho...

Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...

The Works of Robert Burns; with a Complete Life of the Poet, and An Essay on His Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Also Numerous Notes, An...

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A New Edition by Mr. Yorick & Voyage Sentimental en France et en Italie, par M. Yorick. Written...

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

Scotch Whisky interest: Highland Park; Images of Orkney. Produced by Highland Park Whisky distillers as a promotional tool for their brand of malt ...

Sue Townsend; First editions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 & The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, 1982 & 1984. Both Illustrat...

In Praise of Tweed, by W.S. Crockett, Minister of Tweedsmuir. An anthology of poetic writings connected with the River Tweed, with biographical int...

The Testament of Beauty; A Poem in Four Books, by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. The work that secured Bridges great popularity, only shortly befor...

History of the Hammermen of Glasgow; A Study typical of Scottish Craft Life and Organisation. By Harry Lumsden, LL.B., Clerk of the Trades House of...

Manners in Three Parts. Translated from the French:  SOLD Part I. Of Piety: including the love of God, and the Gratitude and Homage which we owe hi...

The Concurrence & Unanimity Of the People Called Quakers; In Owning and Asserting the principal Doctrines of the Christian Religion; Demonstrat...

The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert MacGregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, Before The High Court of Judiciary, in the Years 1752, 175...

A Scent of Water, by Carl MacDougall. Illustrated by Alasdair Gray. SOLD A collection of 18 folk tales from both traditional and original sources, ...

Jungle John; A Book of the Big-Game Jungles, by John Budden. Illustrated by Major-General H.J.P. Browne. A vintage jungle adventure yarn featuring ...

A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in mod...

Poor Things; Episodes From the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer. By Alasdair Gray, although his own credit r...

The Works of Charles Dickens; Complete Edition in Twenty Volumes. With Illustrations by Cruickshank, 'Phiz,' &c. Chapman & Hall / Oxford Un...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Waverley Edition, 26 Volumes, complete. Subscriber's edition. This Waverley edition is a scarce set. This ...

The Justice of Kings, by Richard Swan. Published by Orbit in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numbered Limited edition of 2,000...

The Collarbound, Tales of the Edge, Volume 1, by Rebecca Zahabi. Published by Gollancz in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numb...

Burningblade & Silvereye, Books 1 & 2, by Django Wexler. Comprises; SOLD Ashes of The Sun; Prelims + 550pp + 1pp. Numbered number 787/1000....

The Astronomy of Love, by Jon Stallworthy. Contains 40 poems. Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1961. First edition. A very good mottle...