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Blyth, Henry. Madeleine Smith. Duckworth 1975 Plates,
index, 226pp., good. 10.00
Brand, Christianna. Heaven knows Who: The trial of
Jessie M'Lachlan. Michael Joseph 1960 Illus., plan,
index, 283pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Brown, D. Walker. Clydeside Litterateurs: Biographical Sketches.
Glasgow 1897 Illus., 262pp., good. 10.00
Brown, James. The Life of a Scottish Probationer. Maclehose 1908 4th. ed. 315pp., inscr., good. 5.00
Burton, John Hill.
The Scot Abroad.
Blackwood 1883 3rd. ed. 800g. Index, 488pp., very good. 12.00
Butt, John et al.
Robert Owen of New Lanark: A Bi-Centennial Tribute.
Open Univ. 1980 3rd. ed. Plates, 18pp., card covers, good. 1.00
Caird, John.
University Addresses.
MacLehose 1898 Tipped in watercolour of Caird, 383pp., lacks ffep else good. 5.00
Cameron, George. John Horne: His Life and Works.
Wick 1993 Plates, 137pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Campbell, James.
Gate Fever: Voices from a prison.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1986 179pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird 1831-1904.
Aberdeen: SCP. Plates, biblio., index, 200pp., card
covers, good. 8.00
Douglas, M. In Lionland: The Story of Livingstone and Stanley.
Nelson nd. c. 1920 Frontis., 274pp., bkplate., foxing
else good. 5.00
Downie, Thomas. George Buchanan: The Man 1506-1582. A Lecture delivered
in Killearn 1976
Large thin 8vo. Plates, table, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, else
good. 3.00
Duff, David (Ed.).
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals.
Webb & Bower 1980 900g. Large sized. Plates, illus., index, 240pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ellis, Jennifer. (Ed.)
Thatched with Gold: The Memoirs of Mabell, Countess of Airlie.
Hutchinson 1962 140mm. by 220mm., 600g. Frontis., plates, index, 247pp., sl. marked else good in torn d/w. 5.00
Finlayson, Iain.
The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell.
Constable 1984 Plates, biblio., index, 273pp., vg. in d/w. 8.00
Gammie, Alexander.
Dr. George H. Morrison: His Life and Work.
James Clarke nd. c. 1928 2nd. ed. Frontis., plates, index, 195pp., good. 4.00
Gelfand, Michael. Livingstone The Doctor: His Life and Travels.
Basil Blackwell 1957 Frontis., plates, appendices, large folding maps,
333pp. Ex-lib copy with stamps/marks to fep/tp. else good and clean. 12.00
Goodenough, Simon.
The Greatest Good Fortune: Andrew Carnegie's Gift for Today.
Edinburgh: Macdonald 1985 1000g. 185mm. by 250mm. Plates, index, 290pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Graham, Rev. Bishop. William Wallace: The Scottish Patriot.
Catholic Truth Society of Scotland nd. c. 1950 31pp., card covers, good. 1.50
Grant, Elizabeth of Rothiemurchus.
Memoirs of a Highland Lady Volume One.
Canongate 1988 Ed. and intro. by Andrew Tod.
349pp., card covers, bkplate else good. 5.00
Grant, Elizabeth of Rothiemurchus.
Memoirs of a Highland Lady Volume Two.
Canongate 1988 Ed. and intro. by Andrew Tod.
Index, 345pp., card covers, bkplate else good. 5.00
Grant, Elizabeth of Rothiemurchus.
A Highland Lady in France.
Ed. by P. Kelly and A. Tod.
Tuckwell P. Index, 252pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with some stamps, spine creased; reading copy. 2.50
Haddow, William Martin. My Seventy Years. Glasgow: Gibson 1943 Plates, 170pp., vg, in d/w. 3.00
Hamilton, James. Life of Lady Colquhoun. Inverness 1969 210pp.,
card covers, good. 2.50
Hetherington, S.J. Katharine Atholl 1874-1960 Against
The Tide. Aberdeen UP. 1989 Index, 234pp., good in d/w.
8.00
Hutchinson, Roger.
All the Sweets of Being: A Life of James Boswell.
Mainstream 700g. Index, 238pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Hunt, Oeter. Oscar Slater: The Great Suspect.
Carroll and Nicholson 1951 Plans, plates, biblio., index, 248pp.,
good in d/w. 9.00
Illingworth, Sir Charles.
The Story of William Hunter.
E & S Livingstone Ltd. 1967 700g.
Plates, 134pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good in d/w. 8.00
Jeal, Tim. Livingstone.
Heinemann 1973 Index, 427pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., 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
Lennox, Cuthbert (Biographical memoir); Melrose, Andrew (Reminiscences). George Douglas Brown. Intro.
by Andrew Lang. Hodder and Stoughton 1903 243pp., sp. and covers dusty/dull, inscr.,
else good. 8.00
Lochhead, Marion.
John Gibson Lockhart.
John Murray 1954 Frontis., plates, index, 324pp., vg. 8.00
MacDonald, Alexander.
Man of Principle: Alexander Fleming, Minister of Neilston Parish Church 1804-1844.
Alexander Fleming Appreciation Society. Plates, 58pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Mackenzie, Eileen. The Findlater Sisters: Literature and Friendship. John Murray 1964 Index, 150pp.,
vg. in d/w. 8.00
MacLellan, Angus. (Told by)
The Furrow Behind Me: The Autobiography of a Highland Crofter.
Trans. by John Lorne Campbell.
Birlinn rep. Plates, glossary, 202pp., card covers, good. 4.50
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. 5.00
MacNair, James I. Livingstone the Liberator: A Study of a
Dynamic Personality. Collins nd. 1950 Plates, index, 382pp.,
good in d/w. 3.00
Magnusson, Sally. The Flying Scotsman: A Biography.
Quartet 1981 Plates, 191pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Malet, Oriel. Marjory Fleming. Faber 1946 2nd. imp. Plates,
appendix, 170pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 5.00
Masson, David.
Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings.
MacMillan 1875 Engraved frontis., 490pp., inscr., joints cracked but sound, newspaper clippings tipped in. Scarce. 18.00
Millar, A.H. Mary Queen of Scots: Her Life Story. Sands 1927 Frontis., index, 227pp., good. 3.00
Miller, Hugh. First Impressions of England and its People.
Hawick 1983 224pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Miller, Hugh. My Schools and Schoolmasters. Nimmo 1885 rep. 272pp., inscr., dec. blue cloth, dusty and dull else good. 6.00
Miller, Hugh. My Schools and Schoolmasters.
Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter 1854 First edition.
537pp., 5pp. list of works by Miller. Original red cloth with title label on spine; a bit dull with some marks to fore-edge; some wear to inner back strip, else good. Scarce. 35.00
Miller, Karl. Cockburn's Millennium. Duckworth 1975 Frontis., plates, index, 322pp., vg. in d/w.
12.00
Minto, C.S. (Notes) Thomas Keith 1827-1895: Surgeon and
Photographer. Edinburgh: Lib. and Museums Com. 1972
16pp., 29 plates, card covers, good. 2.50
Morison, S.E. John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography.
Faber 1960 Frontis., plates, biblio., index, 453pp.,
ex-lib. copy with stamps/marks to fep/tp/sp. in lib. binding
style else good, clean and sound. 12.00
Morton, William W. (Ed.)
Alexander Morton 1844-1923 - Pioneer of the lace industry in Scotland.
Privately pub. c. 1960 Frontis., plates, 48pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Muir, John.
The Wilderness Journeys.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf; My First Summer in the Sierra; Travels in Alaska; Stickeen. Intro. by Graham White.
Canongate. Omnibus edition. 130mm. by 195mm., 600g. Card covers, sl. creased else good. 5.00
New Lanark Conservation Trust.
The Story of Robert Owen 1771-1858.
NLCT.
Plates, 32pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Osborne, Brian D.
The Last of the Chiefs: Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry 1773-1828.
Argyll Pub. 400g. Notes, index, 253pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good good reading copy. 4.00
Pachai, Bridglal. (Ed.)
Livingstone Man of Africa: Memorial Essays 1873-1973.
Longmans 1973 Index, 245pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep. else good in d/w. 5.00
Pattison, F.L.M. Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist 1791-1851
Canongate 1987 Plates, index, 284pp. Good in d/w. 8.00
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
Pearson, Ronald. Conan Doyle: A Biographical Solution.
Drew 1989 Index, 208pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Pottle, Frederick A. (Ed.)
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764.
Heinemann 1953 Plates, index, 353pp., map. Sp. sunned else good. 8.00
Pottle, Frederick A. (Ed.) Boswell's London Journal 1762-63
Heinemann 1951 rep. Index, 370pp., good in torn, foxed d/w. 9.00
Reid, J.M. Traveller Extraordinary: The Life of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Eyre and Spottiswoode 1968 Frontis., plates, index, 320pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w.
6.00
Scott, Sheila. John Buchan. Pub. by the author 1992 Plates,
35pp., card covers, good. 2.00
Sinclair, D.; Warkentin, G. The New World Journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop 1845 Paul Harris 1976 Index, 121pp., vg. in d/w. 3.00
Smiles, Samuel. Autobiography. Ed. by Thomas Mackay.
John Murray 1905 Gravure frontis. and plates, index, 452pp.
Ex-lib. copy in lib. binding style with marks/stamps to fep/tp.
else a good, clean and sound copy. 20.00
Snoddy, T.G. Michael Bruce: Shepherd-Poet of the Lomond Braes 1746-1767
Blackwood nd. c. 1940 Index, 224pp., inscr., else good. 5.00
Stewart, A.J. (Presented by) Falcon: The Autobiography of His Grace James
the IVth King of Scots.
Peter Davies 1970 246pp., good in torn d/w. 5.00
Stewart, Jean Cantlie.
The Quality of Mercy: The Lives of Sir James and Lady Cantlie.
Allen and Unwin 1983 Plates, index, 277pp., vg. in d/w. 8.00
Swan, Annie S.
My Life: An Autobiography.
James Clarke 1943 rep. 200g. 192pp., card covers, worn and dusty. 3.50
Taylor, Patricia.
Thomas Blaikie: The Capability Brown of France 1751-1838.
Tuckwell Press. Plates, biblio., index, 256pp., card covers, good. 10.00
Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katherine Bruce Glasier.
Gollancz 1971 Plates, biblio., index, 256pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps/marks else good in d/w. 6.00
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. Flora MacDonald: Her life in the Highlands and America.
Bles 1967 Plates, notes, 173pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., sl. worn else good in d/w. 5.00
Walford, L.B. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist.
Williams and Norgate 1910 Frontis., plates, 317pp.,
good. 5.00
Wells, G.A. (Ed.) J.M. Robertson 1856-1933: Liberal, Rationalist and Scholar.
Pemberton 1987 Index, 271pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Wimsatt, William K; Pottle, Frederick A. (Ed.)
Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774.
Heinemann 1960 Plates, index, 424pp., good in sl. torn/frayed d/w. 10.00
Wright, Allen. J.M. Barrie: Glamour of Twilight. Ramsay Head P. 1976
95pp., covers sl. marked, sp. worn else good. 2.50
Wright, Joseph.
Janet Hamilton and Other Papers.
Edinburgh: R. and R. Clark 1889 72pp., orig. black dec. cloth, good. Pages 3-32 consist of sketches on Janet Hamilton of Langloan, Coatbridge. 7.50
