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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…

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…

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…

A rich family album compiled by Lucy Gwendoline Duff, grand daughter of the Rev James Grant, in the early 20th century preserving family documents, printed obituaries and tributes and a fine selection of photographs which together trace the achievements and history of the Grant family dating, back to the mid 1700s in the Glenbuchat, Badenoch and To… Read more…

Very good copy of an original Royal Visit Supplement from the Dundee Advertiser dated July 9, 1914 marking the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary to Dundee and Perth. Printed just weeks before WW1, a lasting record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. Each leaf is packed full of advertisements, articles o… Read more…

Six Glasgow Herald Royal Visit photographic supplements dated July 7th - July 13th 1914, bound together to mark the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary. Printed just weeks before WW1, bursting with 100s of wonderful images, a lasting photographic record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. The supplements… Read more…

A bound collection of 31 pieces of engraved sheet music including a collection of 7 songs, several sung by Madame Stockhausen, relating to Switzerland. Handsomely half bound in brown calf over marbled boards measuring 35 cm x 25 cm. Binding square and firm. Hand numbered 229 pp. Hand written index to front flyleaf. All in very good condition throug… Read more…

Court report on the trial of a young woman in high society Glasgow who was accused of murdering her secret lover, Alexander Forbes Irvine. Publisher’s brown textured cloth with a printed spine label, worn to head and tail of spine. Early ownership inscription, possibly American of a ‘Lesset Stephen’(?) beneath a paper ‘55c’ price. Two hand-tinted e… Read more…

Full length pre-publication typescript with extensive authorial corrections to this novel set on a remote Scottish Hebridean island off the coast of Wester Ross. The island - Eilian More - is the beautifully described backdrop to the machinations of its Chief, Evan Urquhart, whose castle is burned to the ground in the final chapter by his greatest… Read more…

How many receive a telegram with a special blessing from His Holy Father the Pope on the occasion of their golden wedding? Mr and Mrs Patrick Dempsay did. This original pencil written Post Office Telegram originating from Cita Del Vatican is stamped on receipt at Spean Bridge, a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the Highlands of Scotland and… Read more…

Anthony Burgess's influential novel, A Clockwork Orange, signed on a bookplate by the author in black ink - and laid into the book. This mid 1982 reprint is near fine in a very good jacket, a very attractive copy of a cult novel. Read more…

A limited edition, limitation statement signed by Ted Hughes which originally accompanied a Charles Seluzicki, 1975 edition of Chiasmadon. The statement is numbered XXXX of 175. Very good, lightly marked and creased white card. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonha… Read more…

Three Manuscript Poems by Norman MacCaig. The Rougemont Press, Exeter 1970. (Ted Hughes was one of the directors). Limited edition, number 8 of 300, signed by the author "Norman MacCaig Oct. '70". Very good in lightly marked grey card wrappers, internally fine. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of '… Read more…