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Anonymous. The Scottish Socialists. Faber 1931 255pp.,
good. 5.00
Barrhead Community Council.
The Story of James Maxton.
BCC. 1985 Plates, 95pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Barrington, John.
Red Sky at Night.
Pan 1986 Illus.,
index, 252pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Barrington, John.
Red Sky at Night.
Michael Joseph 1985 rep.
Illus., index, 207pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Beltrami, Joe.
A Deadly Innocence: The Meehan File.
Mainstream 1989 Plates, 192pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Bold, Alan. Hugh MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography. Paladin 1990 Plates, index, 557pp., card covers, vg. 5.00
Boyd, J. Morton.
The Song of the Sandpiper: Memoir of a Scottish Naturalist.
Colin Baxter 1999 600g. 240pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 5.00
Boyle, Jimmy.
A Sense of Freedom.
Pan 1980 3rd. imp. 263pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Bridie, James; McLaren, Moray.
A Small Stir: Letters on the English.
Hollis and Carter 1949 152pp., good. 2.50
Brown, Gordon.
Maxton.
Fontana 1988 Index, 336pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Brown, Hamish.
Travels.
The Scotsman 1986 Plates, illus., 229pp.,
card covers, good. 3.50
Buchan, William.
The Rags of Time: A Fragment of Autobiography.
Ashford, Buchan and Enright 1990 Plates, index, 278pp., inscr., edge bashed else good in d/w. 3.50
Cairney, John.
East End to West End: First Steps in an Autobiographical Journal.
Mainstream 1988 224pp.,
vg. in d/w. 4.00
Cameron, Donald.
The Field of Sighing: A Highland boyhood.
Longmans 1966 20pp., good. 5.00
Campbell, William.
Villi the Clown.
Faber 1981 Index, 256pp., vg. in d/w.
7.00
Carslaw, W.H.
Holiday Rambles & Studies.
Paisley: Gardner 1922 245pp., sp. dull, inscr., else good. Notes on the Melvilles of Baldovie etc. 6.00
Caskie, Donald.
The Tartan Pimpernel.
Oldbourne P. 1957
Plates, 270pp., good. 4.00
Caskie, Donald. The Tartan Pimpernel. Oldbourne P. 1959 rep.
270pp., lacks ffep., else good. 2.50
Cockburn, John.
The Hungry Heart: A Romantic Biography of James Keir Hardie.
Jarrolds 1956 Frontis., plates, index, 286pp., inscr., else good. 5.00
Darlow, T.H.
William Robertson Nicoll: Life and Letters.
Hodder and Stoughton 1925 rep. Frontis., plates, biblio., index, 475pp., inscr., else good. 4.00
Darton, F.J. Harvey. J.M. Barrie. Nisbet nd. c. 1920 Index, 127pp.,
good in d/w. 2.50
Davis, Margaret Thomson.
The Making of a Novelist: The Autobiography of
an ordinary housewife who made it as a writer.
Allison and Busby 1982 Index, 134pp., vg. in d/w.
Presentation copy from the author. 5.00
Docherty, George M.
I've Seen The Day.
Michigan 1984 Plates, 308pp. Good in marked d/w. 5.00
Fergusson, Bernard.
Return to Burma.
Collins 1962 550g. Plates, index, 256pp., corners sl. bumped else good. 5.00
Findlay, Mary S.
My Life.
Privately pub. 1990 Plates, 124pp.,
card covers, good. Signed by the author. 3.50
Fraser, Christine Marion.
Blue Above the Chimneys.
Hutchinson 1980 176pp., good. 5.00
Fraser, Eugenie.
The House by The Dvina: A Russian Childhood.
Corgi 1993 rep. Plates, 336pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Fraser, Eugenie.
A Home by the Hooghly.
Mainstream 1989
Plates, 240pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Fraser, George MacDonald.
Quartered Safe Out Here.
Harper Collins 2000 Glossary, 347pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.00
Fulton, Rikki.
Is It That Time Already: The Autobiography.
BW 1999 700g. Plates, index, 330pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Galbraith, Russell.
Without Quarter: A Biography of Tom Johnston.
Mainstream. 750g. Plates, index, 288pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Gallacher, William.
Revolt on the Clyde: An Autobiography.
Lawrence and Wishart 1990 4th. ed. rep. Index, 301pp., card covers, good. 7.50
Gillies, Anne Lorne.
Song of Myself.
Mainstream 1991 600g. Plates, 224pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks rfep., marked; working copy only. 3.50
Glasser, Ralph.
Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs.
Pan 1991
209pp., card covers, weak point to spine; working copy only. 2.00
Glasser, Ralph.
Growing up in the Gorbals.
Pan 1987 207pp., card covers, sl. torn else good. 2.50
Gray, Cecil.
Musical Chairs.
The Hogarth Press 1985
Index, 324pp., card covers, inscr., sp. sl. creased else good. 4.00
Haddow, William Martin.
My Seventy Years.
Glasgow: Gibson 1943 Plates, 170pp., good in torn d/w. 3.50
Hamilton, James. Life of Lady Colquhoun. Inverness 1969 210pp.,
card covers, good. 2.50
Hamilton, Ian.
No Stone Unturned: The Story of the Stone of Destiny.
The inside story of the disappearance of the Coronation Stone by the ringleader.
Gollancz 1952 rep. 300g. 191pp., inscr. else good in d/w. 7.00
Hamilton, Ian.
The Taking of the Stone of Destiny.
Corgi 1992 200g. Plates, 202pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Hamilton, Ian.
A Touch of Treason.
Foreword by Nigel Tranter.
Lochar Pub 1990. 207pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Hardy, Forsyth. John Grierson: A Documentary Biography.
Faber 1979 Plates, index, 298pp. Good in d/w. 6.00
Hawken, Paul. The Magic of Findhorn.
Fontana 1975 222pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Hay, Alice Ivy.
Valiant for Truth: Malcolm Hay of Seaton.
Neville Spearman 1971 Frontis., plates, index, 224pp.,
ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 8.00
Henderson, Meg.
Finding Peggy: A Glasgow Childhood.
Corgi 1995 rep. Plates, 301pp., card covers, a bit creased; good reading copy. 2.00
Herron, Andrew.
Record Apart.
Scottish Academic Press 1974 209pp., inscr. else good in d/w. 3.50
Hetherington, S.J. Katharine Atholl 1874-1960 Against
The Tide. Aberdeen UP. 1989 Index, 234pp., good in d/w.
8.00
Hickey, Des; Smith, Gus.
Miracle: The cure of a Glasgow man from cancer that led to a canonisation in Rome.
Hodder and Stoughton 1978
171pp., good in torn d/w. 5.00
Hollis, Patricia.
Jennie Lee: A Life.
Oxford UP. 950g. Plates, index, 459pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Home, Lord.
The Way the Wind Blows: An Autobiography.
Collins 1976 rep. Plates, index, 320pp., lacks ffep.,
else good in d/w. 5.00
Home, William Douglas.
Mr. Home pronounced Hume: An Autobiography.
Collins 1979 Plates, index, 218pp.
Good in d/w. 5.00
James, Alwyn.
Other Men's Heroes: Scots honoured on the world's stamps.
MacDonald 1982 Plates, 173pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Kane, Albert.
But The Memory Lingers On.
Privately pub. Plates, 89pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Kamm, A.; Lean, A. (Comp. and ed.) A Scottish Childhood: 70 famous Scots
remember. Lacks tp. 206pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Kennedy, Ludovic.
In Bed with an Elephant: A Journey through Scotland's Pat and Present.
Bantam. Plates, index, 393pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 8.00
Lauder, Harry. A Minstrel in France. Andrew Melrose 1918
Frontis., plates, 319pp. Ex-lib. copy with marks to fep/tp; covers worn
else good. 7.00
Lee, Christopher C.
...the grand piano came by camel: Arthur C. Mace, the neglected Egyptologist.
Mainstream 1992 195mm. by 255mm., 600g. Plates, references, index, 160pp., good in d/w. Signed by the author.
5.00
Leitch, R.A.
Daffodils on the Battlefield and other Sketches.
Kirkwall: Orkney Herald nd. c. 1923 Frontis., 72pp., card covers, sl. dog-eared else good. 3.50
Lindsay, Maurice.
Thank You for Having Me: A Personal Memoir.
Hale 1983 Index, 230pp., vg. in d/w. 5.00
Lipton, Sir Thomas J. Leaves from Lipton's Logs.
Frontis., plates, index, 278pp. Ex-lib. copy with marks/stamps to fep/tp/sp.
else a good, sound, clean copy. 8.00
Ludovici, L.J.
Fleming: Discoverer of Penicillin.
Andrew Dakars 1952 Frontis., plates, index, 223pp.
Ex-lib. copy with stamps/marks to fep/tp/sp. else good. 5.00
McArthur, Tom; Waddell, Peter.
The Secret Life of John Logie Baird.
Hutchinson. 450g. Plates, index, 274pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 3.50
MacBeth, George.
My Scotland.
MacMillan 1973 Plates, 127pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 2.50
MacDonald, Finlay J.
Crotal and White.
Scenes from a Hebridean Boyhood.
Warner 1993 rep. 172pp., card covers, good. 2.50
MacDonald, Finlay J.
Crowdie and Cream: Memories of a Hebridean Childhood.
Futura 1986 176pp., card covers, good. 2.00
MacDonald, Finlay J.
Crowdie and Cream.
MacDonald 1982 176pp.,
lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 4.00
MacFadyen, Alastair. Dance with your Soul: A Biography of Jean Callander Milligan, Co-founder of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.
Edinburgh: RSCDS 1983 Large 8vo.
Plates, index, 104pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good and sound in d/w. 5.00
MacFarlane, Gwyn.
Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth.
Chatto and Windus 1984 Plates, refs., index, 304pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin.
The Turbulent Years: A Portrait of Youth in Auld Reekie.
Methuen 1945 Frontis., plates, index,
242pp. Ex-lib. copy in lib. binding style with marks/stamps to fep/tp.
else good. 5.00
MacInnes, Hamish.
Climb to the Lost World.
Hodder and Stoughton 1974 600g. Plates, 223pp., good in d/w. 5.00
MacKay, James.
Allan Pinkerton.
Mainstream 1996 650g. Plates, index, 256pp., good in d/w. 5.00
MacKenzie, John Alexander.
A Mallaig Boyhood.
Tuckwell Press in association with The European Ethnological Research Centre 1996. 166pp. Paperback. Condition: good. 3.00
McKinlay, William Laird.
Karluk: The great untold story of Arctic exploration.
BCA 1976 Plates, index, 170pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Maclean, Dorothy.
To Hear The Angels Sing: An Odyssey of Co-creation with the Devic Kingdom.
Findhorn Pub. 1980 217pp., inscription on ffep., card covers, sl. marked and creased else good. 5.00
McLean, Duncan.
Lone Star Swing.
Cape 1997 312pp., card covers, good. 5.00
MacLean, Veronica.
Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure and Love.
Review 2002. 800g. Plates, index, 374pp., good in d/w. 10.00
MacLennan, Hugh.
Scotsman's Return and other essays.
Heinemann 1961 272pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 2.50
MacLeod, Clara. Memoirs of Children of the Manse. Edinburgh nd. c. 1961 Plates,
78pp., good. 2.50
MacLeod, Dawn.
Oasis of the North: A Highland Garden.
Hutchinson 1958 Illus., 263pp., inscr., good. 3.50
McNee, Sir David.
McNee's Law: The Memoirs of Sir David McNee.
Five critical years at the Metropolitan Police.
Collins 1983 Plates, index, 256pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Magnusson, Magnus.
Magnus on the Move.
MacDonald 1980 Plates,
168pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Malkin, John.
Sir Alexander Fleming: Man of Penicillin.
Ayr: Alloway Pub. 1981 Plates, 81pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Martin, James.
William Barclay: A Personal Memoir.
St. Andrews P. 1985 rep. 104pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Mavor, Sam.
Memories of People and Places.
Hodge c. 1940 700g. 327pp., corners bumped else good. 5.00
Maxwell, Gavin.
The Rocks Remain.
Longmans 1963 First ed. Plates,
186pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Maxwell, Gavin.
The Rocks Remain.
Penguin 1976 rep. 200g. Plates, 221pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.00
May, Gideon Scott.
The Kilt for Keeps.
Alloway Pub. 400g. Illus., 215pp., card covers, good. 2.50
O'Hagan, Andrew.
The Missing.
Picador 1995 550g. 243pp., good in d/w. 3.50
Peacock, Roger S. Pioneer of Boyhood: Story of Sir William A. Smith, Founder of the
Boys Brigade. Glasgow 1966 rep. Plates, 175pp., vg. in d/w. 5.00
Perrie, Walter.
Roads that Move: A Journey through Eastern Europe.
Mainstream 1991 Plates, 223pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Phillips, Alastair.
My Uncle George: The respectful recollections of a
backslider in a highland manse.
Glasgow 1984 Large 8vo.
Illus., 160pp., good in marked d/w. 5.00
Phillips, Alastair.
My Uncle George: The respectful recollections of a
backslider in a highland manse.
Pan 1986. Illus., 175pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Pieri, Joe.
Isle of the Displaced.
An Italian-Scot's Memoirs of Internment in the second world war.
Neil Wilson Pub. 1997
150pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Power, William.
Should Auld Acquaintance... An Autobiography.
Harrap 1937 Index, 255pp., good. 5.00
Reid, J.M.
James Lithgow: Master of Work.
Hutchinson 1964.
Frontis., plates, index, 254pp. Ex-lib. copy in lib. binding style
with stamps/marks to fep/tp. else a good, clean, sound copy. 5.00
Reid, Jimmy.
As I Please.
Mainstream 1984 215pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Rennie, James Alan.
Past Horizons.
Jarrolds 1962 Plates, 200pp., vg.
in d/w. 3.50
Robertson, Anna.
No Going Back to Moldova.
Mainstream 1987 232pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Robertson, Anna.
No Going Back to Moldova.
Corgi 1989 Plates, 252pp., card covers sl. creased else good. 3.50
Robson, John.
One Man in His Time: The Biography of David James, Laird of Torosay Castle..
Spellmount 1998 650g. Plates, index, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Roy, Kenneth.
Conversations in a Small Country: Scottish Interviews.
Carrick Pub. 1989 192pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., sp. sl. crushed else good. 2.50
Roy, Kenneth.
Travels in a Small Country: A Scottish Journey.
Carrick Pub. 1987 Index, 191pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.00
Ruddick, Edith.
My Mother's Daughter: A Theatrical Autobiography.
Merlin Books 1995 130pp., good in d/w. 3.50
Rush, Christopher.
A Twelvemonth and a Day.
Intro. by Alan Bold.
Canongate rep. 308pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Saltire Self-Portraits 3
Sydney Goodsir Smith.
The Saltire Society 1988 12pp, good. 1.00
Saltire Self-Portraits 4
Alasdair Gray.
The Saltire Society 1988 19pp., good. 1.00
Scott, Alastair.
Native Stranger: A Journey in Familiar and Foreign Scotland.
Little, Brown and Co. 1995 Plates, 442pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Scott, Alastair.
A Scott Goes South: A Journey from Mexico to Ayers Rock.
John Murray 1988 Plates, 255pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Scott, Sheila.
John Buchan: A Biographical Sketch.
Pub. by the author 1992 Plates,
35pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Sheridan, Dorothy. (Ed.)
Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945.
Gollancz 1985 Plates, glossary, 352pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps/marks, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Shinwell, Manny.
Lead With The Left: My First Ninety-six Years.
Cassell 1981 500g. Plates, index, 202pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good in lib. style binding. 5.00
Smith, Janet Adam.
John Buchan: A Biography.
Rupert Hart-Davis 1965
Plates, sources, index, 524pp., good in torn d/w. 8.00
Smith, Sydney Goodsir. Autobiographical Letter written to Maurice Lindsay in 1947 The Saltire Society 1988 Saltire Self-Portraits 3 12pp., card covers, vg. 2.00
Steel, David.
Against Goliath: David Steel's Story.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1989 Plates, index, 318pp., good in torn d/w. 6.00
Stewart, William. J. Keir Hardie: A Biography. Independent Labour Party 1925 New ed. Index, 409pp., good. 6.00
Stott, Gordon.
Lord Advocate's Diary 1961-1966.
Aberdeen UP. 1991 rep. Index, 250pp., vg. in d/w. 5.00
Stuart, James; Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.
Within the Fringe: An Autobiography.
The Bodley Head 1967 Frontis., plates, index, 188pp., tape-marks to ep's. else good in d/w. 5.00
Sutherland, Donald.
A Highland Childhood.
Birlinn 1996 rep. 246pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 3.50
Sutherland, Halliday.
A Time to Keep.
Bles 1936 rep. 285pp.,
sp. sl. faded else good. 3.50
Sutherland, Temple.
Evergreen Journey.
Hodder and Stoughton 1983
Plates, 336pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Taylor, A.W.; Witcutt, A.
Flak Jacket and Lipstick: The Life of Christine Witcutt.
Edinburgh 1994 Plates, 164pp.,
card covers, good. 5.00
Thomson, David.
Nairn in Darkness and Light.
Arena 1988 rep.
Index, 303pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Thomson, George L.
My Life as a Scribe.
Canongate 1988 Plates, 183pp., good in d/w.7.00
Thomson, Iain R.
The Long Horizon.
Strathglass Books. 800g. Plates, illus., 239pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Trollope, Rosemary. Starting From Glasgow. Sutton Pub. Plates,
149pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Tweedsmuir, Lord. One Man's Happiness. Hale 1970 rep. Illus. by B.S. Biro.
Index, 288pp., good. 5.00
Webster, Jack.
The Express Years.
B & W Pub 1994 Plates, 286pp., card covers, sl. marked. Presentation copy from the author. 3.50
Webster, Jack.
Grains of Truth.
B & W Pub. 1999 rep. Plates, 401pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 4.50
Webster, Jack.
The Herald Years.
B & W Pub 1996 Plates, 345pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Weir, Molly.
Best Foot Forward.
Hutchinson 1972 207pp.,
good in d/w. 5.00
Weir, Molly.
Best Foot Forward.
Pan 1972 220pp., card
covers, good. 2.00
Weir, Molly.
Stepping into the Spotlight.
Hutchinson 1975 189pp., piece of ffep. missing else good in d/w. 3.50
Weir, Molly.
A Toe on the Ladder.
Pan 1975 232pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Weir, Molly.
A Toe on the Ladder.
Hutchinson 1973 208pp., vg. in d/w. 4.00
Weir, Molly.
Walking into the Lyons' Den.
Hutchinson 1977 191pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 4.00
Weir, Tom.
East of Katmandu.
The Travel Book Club. nd. c. 1960.
Plates, 138pp., good. 5.00
Weir, Tom.
Weir's Way.
Gordon Wright 1981 Plates, 207pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Weir, Tom. Weir's Way. Grafton Books 1988 Plates, 319pp.,
card covers, good. 2.50
Wood, Wendy. I Like Life. The Moray P. 1938 309pp.
Ex-lib copy with some marks to fep/tp else good. Ffep. torn.
6.00
Whitley, Henry C.
Laughter in Heaven.
Hutchinson 1962 189pp.,
lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.50
Young, Douglas.
Chasing an Ancient Greek: Discursive Reminiscences of an European Journey.
Hollis and Carter 1950 140mm. by 220mm., 500g. Index, 204pp., good in sl. ragged, torn, repaired d/w. 8.00
Young, Kenneth.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
Dent 1970 Plates, index, 282pp. Ex-lib. copy with stamps/marks
to fep/tp/sp. else good in d/w. 5.00
