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.
Feel free to offer a lower price for the dearer books if you think they've been listed for a while and we'll see how that goes!
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Cordon Bleu Cookery Course, Purnell, 1969, 4 boxes with 72 booklets. (£60)
Harrap's Standard French & English Dictionary, J.E. Mansion (ed.) Two volumes: Vol 1. 1939, Vol 2 is revised edition 1940. Signed by editor. Slightly bruised and scuffed but contents very good. (£40)
Three old books! I wouldn't buy them given the state they're in but who am I to judge!
An Examination of the letters said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots to James, Earl of Bothwell. Also An Inquiry into the Murder of King Henry by Walter Goodall. Volume 1. 1754 (£50)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Abridged. Scott, Webster & Geary, 1835 (£10)
Unto This Last, John Ruskin, George Allen, 1882 (£15)
Scotland
The Scottish Jurist: Reports of cases decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on appeal from Scotland.
Vols 39 to 45 : 1866 - 1873 (£90)
Scottish Law Reporter, vols 11 and 12 : 1873-74 and 1875-75 (£20 each)
Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region, Charles W.J. Withers, Routledge, 1988 ISBN 0-415-00459-4 (£50)
Handbook on Patents for Scottish Solicitors, R.M. Neilson,
Fraser, Asher & Co., 1914 (£20)
Famous Scottish Burghs, George Eyre-Todd, Heath Cranton, 1923 (£10)
Seedlings of War Years, Hilda Murray of Elibank, George Lewis, 1921 (£20)
Ordnance Gazeteer of Scotland, Francis H. Groome, Grange Publishing,
1884 Vol 4: HAR-LIB and 1885 vol 5: LIN-PET only. (£50 each)
History of Scotland, P. Hume Brown, Cambridge Historical Series, 3 vols. 1902 (£30)
Robert Stewaret: Earl of Orkney Lord of Shetland 1533 - 1593, John Donald, 1982 ISBN 0-85976-082-0 (£30)
A Century of Scottish History, Sir Henry Craik, Blackwood, 1901, 2 volumes (£12)
The Book of the Pageant of Ayr, Rachel O'Neill and Pamela van de Brug, ART ABOUT, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9559491-0-4 (£15)
Song, Dance & Poetry of the Court of Scotland Under King James VI, Helena Mennie Shire, Cambridge University Press, 1969 ISBN 0-521-07181-X (£15)
The Great Historic Families of Scotland. James Taylor 6 divisions (£100)
John Graham of Claverhouse, A. & H. Tayler, Duckworth, 1939 (£30)
Forward by Degrees: The University of Paisley 1897 - 1997, Evelyn Hood, 1997, ISBN 0 904391 45 0 (£30)
Our Lives in World War II: Ordinary People's Memories of Their Lives in the War Years. Janette Lynch for Johnstone History Society. Undated. (£10)
When I Heard the Bell: The Loss of the Iolaire, John Macleod, Birlinn, 2009 ISBN 978-1-84158-792-9 (£20)
The Story of Scottish Rugby, R.J. Phillips, Foulis, 1925 (£20)
Highland Superstitions, Alexander MacGregor, Eneas MacKay, 1922 (£20)
The Story of James Maxton M.P., Barrhead Community Council, 1985 ISBN 0-9510925-0-2 (£20)
Glasgow
The History of Glasgow, Renwick, Lindsay & Eyre-Todd 3vol 1921 (£100)
History of Glasgow, R. Renwick & J. Lindsay, vol 1 Pre-Reformation Period, Maclehose, 1921 (£30)
St. Mungo's Gowfers: The History of Glasgow Golf Club 1787-1987, Robert Crampsey, (£65)
Public Health in Glasgow, Sir Alexander MacGregor, Livingstone, 1967 (£15)
The Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow, 1931 (£15)
Glasgow Limited: A Case-Study in Industrial War and Peace: Social and Economic Studies 7, T.T. Paterson, Cambridge, 1960 (£10)
Glasgow Memorials, Robert Renwick, Maclehose, 1908, No. 492 of 600 published. (£25)
Municipal Glasgow: Its Evolution and Enterprises, 1914 (£9)
Little Pockets of Hope, Glen Buchanan. 1984 The establishment of Govan Workspace, a community business in Glasgow.
ISBN 0-903655-15-2 (£8)
Tongs Ya Bas: A History of Glasgow Gangs Part One 1850 - 1940, R.G. MacCallum, New Glasgow Library, 1994 (£12)
History of the University of Glasgow, 1451-1909, James Coutts, Maclehose, 1909 (£30)
Glasgow University Magazine 1920-21 (£20)
Glasgow University Magazine 1922-23 (£20)
From the Days of the Horseless Carriage, A.S. Thom, Centenary of the Glasgow University Engineering Society, 1991
ISBN 0-85261-3202 (£5)
The Yorkhill Story, Edna Robertson, 1972, (£6)
Glasgow (and nearby) Schools
The High School of Glasgow, Harry Ashmall, 1976 ISBN 0-7073-0118-1 (£8)
Essays Of Travel, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chatto & Windus, 1912. Glasgow Academy prize 1920-21(?) with school stamp embossed on the cover. (£4)
Napoleon Buonaparte, John Gibson Lockhart, Oxford University press, 1916. Glasgow Academy prize 1921-22 with school stamp embossed on the cover. (£6)
The Cloister and the Hearth, Charles Reade, Oxford University, 1915. Glasgow Academy prize 1918-19 with school stamp embossed on the cover. Poorish copy. (£2)
Edinburgh
Modern Athenians 1944, Tom Curr, McLagan & Cumming, 1944, (£10)
Jack House
MacAlaster & Alison the Insurance Brokers 1877 - 1977, Jack House, 1978
ISBN 0 9506382 0 X (£20)
The Friendly Adventure: The Centenary History of the Glasgow Friendly Society 1862-1962, Jack House, Robert Maclehose. 1962 Poor dustjacket £10
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, 1992 Volumes 1-12 Micropaedia, Volumes 13-29 Macropaedia, 2 volumes of Index. Ex-library but it's Renfrewshire! (£175)
Daily Express Encyclopaedia, Daily Express Publications, 1934. 9 volumes (£40)
Nash's 1935-36 bound issues of Nash's Pall Mall magazine. Fair condition. We don't know so make a reasonable offer.
Cassell's Library of English Literature, Henry Morley (ed.), Undated.
Volumes 2 - 5 ( ie. no volume 1) They're battered and bruised but you may never have seen better! (£50)
Lincoln's Use of the Bible, S. Trevena Jackson, Eaton & Mains 1909. (£??)
King George VI: His Life and Reign, John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Reprint Society, 1959, (£10)
Honey from a Weed, Patience Gray, Harper & Row, 1987. Hardback.
ISBN 0-06-181322-2 (£20)
Wireless for the Warrior. Louis Meulstee et al. 4 vols. Excellent condition. (£120)
Queen's Own Highlanders: Seaforth and Camerons, Angus Fairrie, 1983
ISBN 0-9508986-0-0 Water damage (£10)
Talking Pictures: Pictorial Texts and Young Readers, Victor Watson & Morag Stiles, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, ISBN 0-340-64821-X A couple of pages marked with highlighter. (£20)1`2
Murder Casebook: Investigations Into the Ultimate Crime, Marshall Cavendish Weekly Publication. Bound set of 150 editions (We hope it is complete but Buyer Beware!) (£70)
The Novels of Charles Dickens, London Edition published by Caxton. Undated. Green cloth. Two volumes (Pickwick Papers) missing from original 30 volume set. (£80)
Langsyne in Braefoot, Gilbert Rae, Alexander Gardner, undated (£10)
The Life of Mrs R.L. Stevenson, Nellie van de Grift Sanchez, Chatto & Windus, 1920 (£10)
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Balfour, 4th ed., Methuen 1908 (£3)
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Seeley, 1908, Soft tan leather nice condition. (£15)
The Paisley Poets: A Critical Reappraisal of Their Work and Reputation, S. James & G. McCrae (eds.), 1993
ISBN 0-904391-051 (£15)
Radical Renfrew, Tom Leonard (ed.) Polygon 1990 ISBN 0-7486-6028-3 (£15)
Always a Little Further, Alastair Borthwick, Aeneas mackey, 1947 Cover a bit grubby and nothing left on spine but tightly bound and contents OK. (£25)
Down to the Sea, George Blake, Collins, 1937, Loose page. (£10)
Birds of Prey (Classic Natural History Prints) , Joseph Wolf, Studio Editions, 1991, ISBN 1-85170-629-1 (£20)
The New Natural History, J. Arthur Thomson, Newnes. Undated? Blue. 3 volumes. (£60)
Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 1976/77, 1979, 1980, 1982-1991 (£5 each)
Cruggleton Castle, Gordon Ewart, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 1985 (£10)
The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Henry Jephson, MacMillan, 1892,
2 volumes. (£30)
The Slaves of the Padishah, Maurus Jokai, Jarrold, 1903 (£5)
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke, Band 8, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchandlung, Munchen, 1963. Reasonable condition but you'd want to throw away the dustjacket. It's in the Latin! (£100)
Physics for the Enquiring Mind, Eric M. Rogers, 1966 (8th printing). No dust jacket but good condition. (£20)
De Motu Locali Animalium, William Harvey, translated by Gweneth Whitteridge, Cambridge 1959 (£50)
Discourse on Bodies in Water, Galileo, translated by Thomas Salusbury, Illinois Press 1960, (£10)
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Diaries Between the years 1832 and 1840, Viscount Esher (ed.)
John Murray, 1912. 2 vol. (£30)
About Turn: The British Communist Party and the Second World War, Francis King & George Matthews (eds.), Lawrence & Wishart, 1990
ISBN 0-85315-726-X (£50)
The Rhododendron Species Volume 1 Lepidotes, H.H. Davidian, Batsford, 1982, ISBN 0-7134-1639-4 (£18)
Cassell's Nature Book, The Waverley Book Company, Undated. 7 volumes. A bit loose and worn. (£20)
Eadie Brothers 1871-1971, Newman Neame, 1971. (£15)
A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree, Asa Briggs, Longmans, 1961, (£20)
Bomber Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft, Philip J.R. Moyes, 1964 No dustjacket. (£10)
Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, Adrian J. Boas, Routledge, 1999
ISBN 0-415-17361-2 (£10)
Speak To The Hills, Hamish Brown & Martyn Berry ed. (£15)
Poems of the Scottish Hills, Selected by Hamish Brown. Foreword by Norman MacCaig. Aberdeen University press, 1982. Ex-lib.
ISBN 0-08-028476-0 (£20)
Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives, K.Carpenter & P.J.Currie (eds), Cambridge Press, ISBN 0-521-36672-0, Hardback, no dust jacket, (£25)
The Pilgrim's Progress and other Allegorical Works by John Bunyan, Illustrated by David & William Scott. With a critical essay on Bunyan and the Pilgrim's Progress by Lord Macaulay, Fullarton. Undated. A bit worn and some staining inside. (£30)
Bruges: A Record and an Impression, Mary Stratton. Illustrated by Charles Wade. Batsford, 1914 (£15)
The Cabinet of Irish Literature. Charles A. Read 4 vol 1909 (£130)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir israel Gollanz memorial lecture, British Academy, 1936 (£20)
The Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid, 1875-1947, Brian Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 1980,
ISBN 0-521-22801-8 (£25)
Ireland: A Concise History, Maire and Conor Cruise O'Brian, 3rd ed., BCA, 1992. Hardback. ISBN 978 0500 25115 7 (£15)
Puccini, Mosco Carner, Duckworth, 3rd ed.,
ISBN 9780715623633 (£30)
Golf and the Railway Connection, Ian Nalder, Scottish Cultural press, 2003 ISBN 1-84017-049-2 (£15)
Millennium 2000: Millennium Exhibition 1 December 1999 31 January 2000 Albermarle Gallery, (£20)
Alfred Bestall's Punch & Tatler Drawings & Paintings, Caroline G. Bolt (ed.), 2010 (£20)
Port Glasgow. Photographs by Mark Neville, Publisher? 2004? (£60)
Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Keith Andrews. Two volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1968 (£65)
The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, Le Corbusier, John Rodker, 1929, (£80)
The Works of Sir Robert Lorimer, Christopher Hussey, Country Life, 1931 Covers grubby and end papers brown but tightly bound and clean pages. (£100)
Collaborations of Ch. Rotham, Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton, 2000 OK but a bit scruffy, (£10)
Gift of the Night and Other Poems. David Lowe. 1898 (£20)
Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance, Max Born, 1949. Grubby but text OK. (£15)
The End of the Game, Peter Hill Beard, 1977 Cover a bit grubby.
ISBN 0-00-216259-8 (£20)
Principles of Sociology, Herbert Spencer, vol 1 (1904) and vol 2 (1902) (£20)
Global Lawyer, Neil Morris ISBN 978-0-94896120-5 (£10)
Doorways in Drumorty, Lorna Moon, Gourdas House, 1981
ISBN 0-907301-03-7 Nice hardback with dustjacket, price clipped. (£20)
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, William H. Prescott, Sonnenschein, 1908. First page loose. (£10)
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Complete Prose Works, Walt Whitman, Small, Maynard & Co, 1898, (£50)
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Small, Maynard &Co., 1898 (£20)
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Jane Austen's Novels in Ten Volumes, 2nd edition, J.M.Dent, Dec 1892.
Illustrated by William C. Cooke. Very pale green with gold lettering. Covers a bit grubby but inside OK. (£80)
The Plays of J.M. Barrie, 11 volumes, Hodder & Stoughton, Uniform edition, 1921 - 1931. Embossed JMB on front. Two are slightly battered and bruised. (£40)
The Peterborough Chronicle, Cecily Clark, OUP, 1958. (£15)
Old World Worthies. Classical Biography. 1884 (£15)
The Paisley Shawl, Frederick Niven, Collins, 1931 (£15)
Benighted, J.B. Priestley, Heinemann, Windmill Library, 1930 (£25)
Letters to Men, Archbishop Fenelon, Longmans, 1903 (£15)
The New World Order, H.G. Wells, Secker & Warbug, 1940 (Reprint) (£15)
Balliol College. University of Oxford College Histories, H.W. Carless Davis, Robinson 1899 (£20)
Christ Church, University of Oxford College Histories, Henry L. Thompson, Robinson 1900 (£10)
Cesar Cascabel, Jules Verne, Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. "New and Cheaper Edition" Not loose but hanging by threads. (£12)
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Slept Here, Howard Lachtman, Capra press, 1985
ISBN 0-88496-227-X (£6)
The 22nd Man: In Regard to Sherlock Homes German Agent, David L. Hammer, Gasgogene, 1989 ISBN 0-938501-08-9 (£10)
Sherlock Homes and the Case of Dr Freud, Michael Shepherd, Tavistock, 1985 ISBN 0-422-79990-4 (£5)
Sherlock Holmes at Oxford, Nicholas Utechin, 2nd ed. 1981 (reprinted 1985) ISBN 0-9503880-8-4 (£5)
Sherlock Homes and the Kent Railways, Kelvin I. Jones, Magico, 1987 ISBN 0948193255 (£20)
The Sherlock Homes Journal 16 editions, not complete run, from Summer 1988 (71st issue) to Winter 1996 (88th issue) (£30)
Music Masterpieces vol 1 - 6 Percy Pitt (£30)
Travel. Adventure and Sport, from Blackwood's Magazine vol. V, Blackwood. Undated. Green cloth. (£10)
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)
Northern Numbers: Selections from Scottish Poets. Foulis, 1920 (£8)
The Japanese Sword: A Comprehensive Guide, Kanzan Sato, Translated by Joe Earle, Kodansha, 1983, ISBN 4-7700-1055-9 (£20)
The Alhambra, Washington Irving, MacMillan, 1896 (£15
The Russian Revolution, Jackdaw Publications. A collection of documents. (£10)
Complete Electrical Engineering, George Newnes Ltd. Undated. 4 volume green cloth. (£20)
Civil Engineering: A Reading Course and General Reference Work on Surveying etc. American Technical Society, 7 volumes, 1931. Nice condition (£50)
Hawkins Electrical Guide, Theo. Audel & Co., !929, 10 vol. (£25)
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