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Scarce First Edition from the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. Publisher’s purple cloth boards in pristine condition. Endpapers very lightly age toned. Text block notably clean and crisp throughout. Dust jacket near good; very minor nicks to spine tips and corners; cli… Read more…

In very good condition, an original Abel Heywood Penny Guide Book. An ex Kensington Public Library copy in original bright yellow wrappers bound into robust cloth backed boards lettered in gilt to spine. With the usual library stamps throughout and armorial bookplate of ‘The Royal Borough of Kensington Public Libraries’ to the front pastedown. Cont… Read more…

In good plus condition, all 4 in the set (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) in original, joyfully illustrated card covers bound using a different coloured thread to the spine for each season. Each volume additionally covered in a previous owner’s custom made wrapper of brown paper with titling and a different pencil coloured illustration to each fron… Read more…

Third Edition. From the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. In very good, crisp and clean condition. Boards wrapped in a securely attached unique custom made jacket beautifully annotated in a gothic influenced hand drawn over a brown and red background by previous owner.… Read more…

First editio from the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. A notably fresh copy. Green boards in pristine condition; crisp, clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition; clipped; lightly finger soiled and age toned to rear. 128 pp. Read more…

Unabridged reprint of all 3 original books. From the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. A notably fresh copy. Black boards and text block in pristine condition; crisp, clean and unmarked throughout. Bright red endpapers very fresh. Booksellers label to front pastedown re… Read more…

A specialised scientific memoir originally published in 1850 which appeared in several different publication contexts and hence this contemporary half binding contains both sections of the standalone 1852 and 1853 versions by Chez A Hardel and an additional section most probably from a larger academic pamphlet published by the Académie des Sciences… Read more…

A very pleasingly illustrated product catalogue produced by the Devonshire School of Lettering in Morecombe c1955. The school acted as both an educational institution and a supplier to the trade and the contents provide a snapshot of mid 20th century commercial art history in an era before the introduction of digital or vinyl printing when every sh… Read more…

A small, good looking blank ledger in distinctive orange/tan embossed paper boards with the word ledger prominently displayed to the upper board in a decorative gold font within a gold ornate border. In spite of a few flaws, a very appealing object. Corners knocked; spine top and tail scuffed; tear to lower spine; remnants of tape marks visible acr… Read more…

Scarce First Edition. Publisher’s green cloth boards in good condition, bumped to lower corner, age spotted to text block edges. Binding square and sound. Endpapers and preliminaries age toned and lightly spotted. Full page frontispiece illustration of ‘The Lady Victoria Stacey’ plus 3 further illustrations by Olive Snell throughout. Publisher’s er… Read more…

First edition inscribed in November 1923, ‘For Clare Sheridan from Ian Hamilton who wishes very much he had been able to hear her in Russia, Germany and America before he wrote about these lands’. Clare Sheridan (1885–1970) was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diari… Read more…

An uncorrected proof copy in good soft back green paper wrappers stamped ‘UNCORRECTED’ to upper. Original dust jacket in fair plus condition, scuffed to edges, spine top and tail, age toned. Text block sound, annotated occasionally in blue biro throughout. ‘Enjoyable, charming and very genuine - even their imperfections. 430 pm 2/10/71’ written to… Read more…

Fifth edition of an original Scottish text with a rather grim frontispiece which documents the final speeches, letters and testimonies of martyrs executed for their faith between 1660 and the late 1680s, serving as a primary record of religious persecution during the reign of King Charles II and James VII. It is considered a cornerstone text for un… Read more…

An exceptional album compiled from the 1820s to the 1880s which contains an inscription - probably taken from a book - in which Samuel Johnson presents a gift to his friend Hester Thrale. This promises something ‘Brought from Scotland’ - a tantalising suggestion given Johnson’s famous trip to Scotland and the Hebrides in 1773, immortalised in A Jou… Read more…

First Edition. Publisher’s blue cloth boards in good condition, titled in gilt. A lovely square binding; sunned to spine; text block edges age spotted; endpapers age toned; very light foxing to preliminaries. Printed in Guernsey by the Star and Gazette Co. Ltd. 301 pp. A compilation of lectures given by anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner between Januar… Read more…

Alasdair Gray’s inscribed copy of this guide to the discussion of English literary texts, designed primarily for the first-year university student. A near fine paperback, covers and edges lightly soiled. Inscribed by the author to verso of front cover “To Alasdair love from Philip July 1983’. A near fine copy. Provenance: from the recent Glasgow di… Read more…

Presentation copies inscribed in both volumes by the leading Scots baronial-style architect, and pioneering Edinburgh photographer, ‘Charles Kinnear, Esq. Kinloch. 1863’ to his friend James Pottie. Original maroon pebbled cloth, spines lettered in gilt and relaid with some loss to original cloth showing through. Original yellow coated endpapers wit… Read more…

Owned and extensively annotated by the influential Town Clerk of Aberdeen whose portrait was painted by Sir George Reid three years after he filled this Memorandum book with his notes and records. John Angus (1841-1913) held a key position at the heart of Aberdeen civic life during the city’s most wealthy period as an industrial and economic powerh… Read more…

A volume of biographies of eminent Scotsmen including Michael Scot, Arnold Blair, Andrew Wynton, Sir Andrew Wood, Robert Henryson, Cardinal Beaton and Sir David Lindsay. Bound in contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards, pretty gilt and embossed decoration to the spine, red spine label and marbled edges. This is a handsome little book, the… Read more…

Unpublished manuscript containing 40 pages of Murdoch and Yuille of Darleith family history written by William Young c1900. It is the second section that is the more intriguing, deriving from ‘an old book kept at Darleith, and kindly lent by the present proprietor, Mr Andrew B Yuille, Bellevue, Bridge of Allan’. The book is bound in parchment with… Read more…

Writer Alasdair Gray’s copy, apologetically inscribed to him by the author Nicholas Rankin who followed in the footsteps of author and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson from Edinburgh to the Pacific islands of Hawaii and Samoa. Very good paperback, covers bright, spine creased, edges lightly marked, text block browned but otherwise clean. Inscri… Read more…

Bound in Edinburgh publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering to the spine; lightly bumped. Brown coated endpapers, reinforced with brown tape to the inner hinge with the upper board. Booksellers ticket of Parker and Son, Oxford; frontispiece and two plates; pp314; 24pp adverts. A faint whiff of tobacco smoke hangs about the book when opened. An attra… Read more…

Two volumes of Huxley’s essays, owned and annotated at Glencorse Barracks in Midlothian by ‘Muldoon’ Haldane, nephew of the Secretary for War, the Scottish lawyer Viscount Haldane. At the time he acquired these books in 1902 Maldwyn Haldane had recently been commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment following on from study at University College, Lon… Read more…

Five copies of the Scottish Field magazine in vibrantly illustrated covers, capturing the cultural moment around the post war period, focusing on Scottish heritage, travel, food, whisky and rural life. Bursting with high-quality, aspirational advertising, weddings of the month, photographs and general interest articles. Each issue is circa 55 pp. I… Read more…

A pocket sized autograph book containing a sporting collection of over 55 signatures collected circa 1945 including those of the Scotland national football teams, cricketers and occasional entertainers of the day. Included within are: 1. A single pasted in sheet titled ‘Scotland (Wembley Feb 1944)’ signed by 13 of the Scottish players who lost 6-2… Read more…