Scottish Interest Books

Lanark: A Life in Four Books is Alasdair Gray's masterpiece and one of the defining novels of modern Scottish literature. First published in 1981 a...

Lean Tales, by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray. A compilation of short stories by 3 fine Scottish authors, loosely linked along the th...

Saltire Self Portraits; Alasdair Gray.  A concise autobiographical work by Alasdair Gray, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in m...

The Fall of Kelvin Walker, Alasdair Gray's third novel, is a sharply observed satire of ambition, identity and the pursuit of success in 1960s Brit...

The Little White Bird is one of J.M. Barrie's most enduring and imaginative works, first published in 1902 and notable for introducing the characte...

Grafts/Takes by Edwin Morgan. This poetry collection by Edwin Morgan has an interesting reversible "dos-à-dos" format, as the 2 collections of 'Gra...

Fleck is Alasdair Gray's verse adaptation of Goethe's Faust, presented as a dramatic script and illustrated throughout by the author. Revising and ...

Old Negatives; four verse sequences by Alasdair Gray.  A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art a...

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

The Mathematical Discoveries of Newton is based on two lectures delivered by H. W. Turnbull to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Mathemati...

The History Maker; A science fiction novella by Alasdair Gray.  A scare pre-publication uncorrected proof copy of this wonderful work by Alasdair G...

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

Scottish Book Collector, Vol. 2, Issue 3, February/March 1990, including Alasdair Gray's Storyboard for the film of Lanark An interesting issue of ...

Brian Moore, Alasdair Gray, John McGahern; A Bibliography of Their First Editions, by David Rees. Colophon Press Bibliography Series No. 1. The tit...

The Ends of Their Tethers; Thirteen Sorry Stories, by Alasdair Gray. Note: When fully published the title changed slightly to become "The Ends of O...

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

The Oxford History of England. Complete in 17 Volumes, including the Consolidated Index. Edited by Sir George Clark. Published by Oxford University...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

Robert Bloomfield was one of the most popular labouring-class poets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, celebrated for his sympa...

James Thomson's The Seasons was one of the most celebrated and widely read poems of the eighteenth century, combining descriptive nature poetry wit...

A uniform group of volumes from The Uniform Edition of the Works of J. M. Barrie, published primarily by Hodder and Stoughton, comprising a selecti...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

Her Infinite Variety, edited by E. V. Lucas and first published in 1908, is a charming Edwardian anthology celebrating literary portraits o...

A smart set of 2 volumes on the history of the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university, and the third oldest university in t...

A charming and well-illustrated trio of mid-twentieth-century books on heraldry, custom, and monarchy by Iain Moncreiffe of Easter Moncreif...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

Observations on a Tour of the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland by Thomas Garnett is one of the most substantial illustra...

A particularly fine and complete example of Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, first published in 1791, and one ...

The Acts of Parliament in Scotland, Volume II (1424-1567) is part of the authoritative early nineteenth-century edition of Scotland’s statutory rec...

The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (2006) is a finely produced modern edition of one of the most important cartographic works ever devoted to Scotland, or...

Samuel Butler’s Evolution, Old and New remains one of the most provocative nineteenth-century critiques of Darwinian theory, setting the ideas of B...

A cornerstone account of one of the most ambitious Arctic undertakings of the nineteenth century, Sir George Naress Narrative of a Voyage to the Po...

Joseph Swan (1796-1872) was one of Scotland's foremost 19th-century engravers and publishers, known for his finely detailed steel-plate views of Sc...

Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a richly imagined and deeply moving novel inspired by the life and loss...

A scholarly early 18th century Latin edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, the foundation of classical geometry. Edited and correcte...