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These are some of our special/dearer/nicer books.   The list is mainly for the benefit of customers who visit the shop however we occasionally post books out.  We're reluctant, but you can always ask.  You could also try offering a lower price for the dearer books and we'll see how that goes!


Encyclopaedia of Employment Law and Practice,  2nd ed.,  Professional Publishing.  Loose leaf format.  £??  You could make us a (big) offer.


Nash's 1935-36 bound issues of Nash's Pall Mall magazine.  Fair condition.  We don't know so make a reasonable offer.


Open University S104 Exploring Science Level 1.  Set of 8 books:  Global Warming, Earth & Stars, Energy & Light, The Right Chemistry, Life, Exploring Earth's History, Quarks to Quasars, Life in the Universe.  Set is the the box - unread.  ISBN (for book 5)  978-1-8487-3166-0        £60


Lincoln's Use of the Bible, S. Trevena Jackson, Eaton & Mains 1909.  (£??)


Wireless for the Warrior.  Louis Meulstee et al.  4 vols.  Excellent condition.   (£120)


Murder Casebook:  Investigations Into the Ultimate Crime,  Marshall Cavendish Weekly Publication.  Bound set of 150 editions (We hope it is complete but Buyer Beware!)  (£100)


Giles Cartoon Annuals
Set from series 1 to 48 (probably!)  Most in good condition.  We don't know what to charge but would prefer to sell as a set.


The Blitz Then and Now,  Winston G. Ramsay.  3 vol 1987, 1988, 1990.  (£50)


Physics for the Enquiring Mind, Eric M. Rogers, 1966 (8th printing).  No dustjacket but good condition.  (£20)


The History of Glasgow,  Renwick, Lindsay & Eyre-Todd  3vol 1921  (£120)


The Great Historic Families of Scotland.  James Taylor  6 divisions  (£100)


Chemical Warfare,  A.A. Fries & C.J. West,  McGraw-Hill 1921.  (£100)


Mass-Observation at the Movies, J.Richards & D.Sheridan (eds.) 1987
ISBN  0-7102-0878-2   (£80)


Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,  Deluxe leatherbound 6th ed. As new (at the moment!)   ISBN 0-19-923325-0  (£70)


Demanding the Impossible:  A History of Anarchism,  Peter Marshall  HarperCollins 1992  ex lib  ISBN  0-00-217855-9   (£50)


The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, Robert mankoff (ed.), Black Dog 2005   ISBN  1-57912-322-8   (£30)


The Bomber Command War Diaries,  Martin Middlebrook & Chris Everitt,  Viking 1987   ISBN 0-670-80137-2    (£20)


The Sikh Wars 1845-6 1848-9, H.C.B Cook Leo Cooper, 1975 
ISBN 0-85052-164-5  (£20)


Peaceful Warrior: Sir Edward Trenton Richards,  Cambden Editions, 1988
ISBN  0-9693489-0-8    (£15)


Titanic & Her Sisters Olympic & Britannic, PRC Publishing,  1998
ISBN  0-86288-434-9   (£25)


Portugal and its People: A History,  W.A. Salisbury, Nelson, 1893 (£15)


Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East,  Adrian J. Boas,  Routledge, 1999
ISBN  0-415-17361-2   (£15)


The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia,  M.Glazier & Monika Hellwig eds. 
ISBN 0-7171-2192-5 (£40)


Speak To The Hills,  Hamish Brown & Martyn Berry ed.  (£30)


Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives, K.Carpenter & P.J.Currie (eds), Cambridge Press,     ISBN 0-521-36672-0,  Hardback, no dustjacket,   (£25)


Raymond Chandler.  2 volumes:  Stories & Early Novels and Later Novels & Other Writings. Library of America.  ISBNs  1-883011-07-8 and 1-883011-08-6    £20


The Grieg-Duncan Folk Song Collection Vol 7,  Patrick Shuldham-Shaw et al (eds)  ISBN  1-8736-4456-6   (£20)


Radical Renfrew: Poems from the French Revolution to the First World War,  Tom Leonard (ed.) ISBN 0-7486-6028-3  (£15)


Harp of Renfrewshire,  Second Series.  Alex. Gardner, 1873.  
Cover poor, content OK,  some pages uncut.  (£30)


Geological History of Britain and Ireland,  N. Woodcock & R. Strachan, 
ISBN  0-632-03656-7     (£20)


A History of Private Life,  Belknap Press.  5 volume paperback. 
eg. vol 5 ISBN 0-674-40004-6  (£30)


Betty Grable:  The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs,  Tom McGee,  The Vestal Press, 1995.  Looks to be signed by author.  ISBN 1-879511-15-0   (£20)


The Cabinet of Irish Literature.  Charles A. Read  4 vol 1909  (£150)


Written on the Wind: Personal Memories of Irish Radio 1926-1976
Louis McRedmond (ed.), 1976     £20


Cromwellian Ireland,  T.C. Barnard, 2000. (paperback)
ISBN 0-19-820857-x    (£18)


Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature, Otto Rauchbauer (ed.) 1992   ISBN  3-487-09531-9   (£20)


Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s, Michaeal, O Siochru (ed.)  2001
ISBN 1-85182-535-5   (£20)


The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales,  Bob Reece, Palgrave, 2001  ISBN  9780333584583  (£40)


Puccini,  Mosco Carner,  Duckworth,  3rd ed., 
ISBN  9780715623633  (£30)


Track the Plaque,  Derek Sumeray,  Breedon Books, 2003
ISBN  1-85983-362-4  (£20)


Millennium 2000:  Millenium Exhibition 1 December 1999 31 January 2000    Albermarle Gallery,  (£20)


Joseph Crawhill  1861-1913: One of the Glasgow Boys,  Vivien hamilton,  1990  ISBN  0-7195-4827-6  (£20)


An Engineering Archive: A selection of papers from the proceedings of the IMechE,  Desmond Winterbone (ed.)   ISBN  1-86058-053-X    (£40)


Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess,  Tony Thorne, Bloomsbury, 1997.  ISBN 0-7475-2900-0  A wee bit scruffy.  (£15)


Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789-1795,  M.K.Danziger & F.Brady (eds),  1989  ex-lib  ISBN 0-434-89729-9   (£20)


Gift of the Night and Other Poems.  David Lowe. 1898  (£20)


Pictorial Poetics,  David Scott  (ISBN 0-521-34117-5)  (£20)


Twelve Views of the Palaces and Gardens of Versailles and Trianon.  1858  (£5)


Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance,  Max Born,  1949.  Grubby but text OK.  (£15)


Shadow of Wings,  R.F. Tapsell, 1972  ISBN 0-09-109420-8  (£30)


The End of the Game,  Peter Hill Beard, 1977  Cover a bit grubby.
ISBN 0-00-216259-8  (£20)


Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol,  Margaret W. Conkey et al. (eds)
ISBN  0-940228-37-8    (£20)


Principles of Sociology,  Herbert Spencer,  vol 1 (1904)  and vol 2 (1902)  (£20)


In Xanadu: A Quest, William Dalrymple, 1989 signed copy  ISBN 0-00-217948-2  (£10)


Global Lawyer,  Neil Morris  ISBN 978-0-94896120-5   (£10)


Dialectics of Nature.  Frederick Engels.  1946 printing.  (£4)


Beethoven Sonatas.  Piano Solo. Edited by Franz Liszt.  Bosworth Edition.  (£15)


Ludwig van Beethoven.  Bicentennial Edition 1770-1970.  Polydor 1974.  (£15)


The Society of College Youths, 1637-1987, A new history of the society, William T. Cook, 1987,  ISBN 0951315900  (£15)


Twice Round the Clock or The Hours of the Day and Night in London, George Augustus Sala, 1971.  Ex Lib. (£15)


Saint Mary's Village,  Carl Fallas, Hodder & Stoughtpn,  1954.  Faded and no dustjacket.  (£10)


Ritual of the Altar - The Order of the Holy Communion.  Rev. Orby Shipley.  1878.  VERY poor cover.  (£20)


The Peterborough Chronicle,  Cecily Clark,  OUP, 1958.  (£15)


Old World Worthies.  Classical Biography.  1884   (£15)


Norway:  The Northern Playground  W.C. Slingsby. (Blackwell's Mountaineering Library)  (£40)


The Master of Blantyre  (£12)


Music Masterpieces vol 1 - 6  Percy Pitt   (£40)


Types of Animal Life  G.Mivart  1894  (£15)


Contract with James, Heaton & Bosworth 1933  (£15)


Miss Fire - The Chronicle of a British Mission to Mihailovich.  Jasper Rootham. 1946 (£15)


Butler's Lives of the Saints.  Rev. Bernard Kelly ed.  5 vol.   1959  (£25)


The Second World War,  Winston Churchill,  Reprint Society,  6 vol.   (£20)

Also above in Chartwell Edition.  (£40)


Poems by J.B. Selkirk.  2 vols.  1911 (£20)


At the Back O' Benachie:  Life in the Garioch in the Nineteenth Century,  Helen beaton,  2nd ed., 1923   (£15)  Not great condition but OK.


The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone.  Edited P.S. Baker et al.  vol 4.  ISBN 0-434-83702-4     (£30)


Sir George Cayley: Inventor of the Aeroplane,  J.Lawrence Pritchard,  1961  (£30)


Corn from Egypt,  Maurice Gompertz,    Gerald Howe, 1927   (£10)


The Means to Prosperity,  John Maynard Keynes, 1933 pamphlet.  (£10)


The Russian Revolution,  Jackdaw Publications.  A collection of documents.  (£10)


The Strange Story of Dr. James Barry: Army Surgeon, Inspector General of Hospitals, discovered on death to be a woman.  Isobel Rae,  1958   (£10)


Purnell's History of the World Wars Special.  27 parts.  (£100)


Problems in Construction Claims,  Powell-Smith,  ISBN 0-632-02852-1  (£20)


Some Building Contract Problems, Powell-Smith,  ISBN 0-632-02581-6  (£8)


A Building Contract Casebook, Powell-Smith,  ISBN  0-632-02683-9  (£40)