UK Interest Books

A rather wonderful example of this work by Alastair Gray. Alongside the immaculate book is a postcard sent by Alastair Gray on the 3 Feb 2001 to S....

Tolkien; Maker of Middle-Earth, by Catherine McIlwaine. Published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2018. Reprint - first printed in the same year. ...

The Making of Middle-Earth; The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, by Christopher Snyder. Published by Union Square & Co., New York, ...

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...

First published between 1723 and 1725, A Collection of Old Ballads was one of the earliest major printed anthologies devoted to English popular bal...

This is a deluxe 1923 edition of The Imitation of Christ, the enduring Christian devotional attributed to Thomas à Kempis, one of the most widely r...

A Distant Mirror is Barbara W. Tuchman's acclaimed narrative history of the turbulent fourteenth century, exploring an age shaped by the Black Deat...

The Human Factor, by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs. Published by The Franklin Library; First Edition Society, Pennsylvania. 1978 limi...

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...

One of the most influential scientific works ever published, Principia Mathematica first appeared in 1687 and laid the foundations of classical mec...

J.R.R. Tolkien; A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter is the first full authorised biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien presents a carefully selected collection of the author's correspondence, edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assist...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo brings together three of the finest surviving works of Middle English literature in translatio...

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...

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...