Biografia

Holy Greed: the forming of a collection: Shambellie House Museum of Costume

Stewart, Charles W · 0 · Byre Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.21 | ¥3,228)

Book Very Good The Royal Scottish Museum Dumfries Founding the Museum of Costume at Shambellie House. Stapled booklet, sticker ghost to front cover, otherwise VG.

Nuk Tessli: the life of a wilderness dweller

Czajkowski, Chris · 1999 · Byre Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.21 | ¥3,228)

Book Very Good Signed by Author(s) Orca Book Publishing Victoria Life in the wilds of British Columbia. Signed by the author to the title page. Light wear to illustrative covers, generally VG.

Words of the Grey Wind: family and epiphany in Ulster

Arthur, Chris · 2009 · Byre Books

£45.89 (€55.01 | $60.63 | ¥9,681)

Book Very Good Blackstaff Press Belfast Lyrical meditations. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Vol IV

Chambers, Robert · 1835 · Byre Books

£30.59 (€36.67 | $40.41 | ¥6,454)

Book Good Blackie & Son Glasgow Volume four only, of four (James Melville to Thomas Telford, with index). Full leather worn and marked, decorative spine rubbed to the edges and the gold dulled, missing black leather volume label, marbled end-papers, marbling to edge of page bl...

Uncas, First of the Mohegans

Oberg, Michael Leroy · 2006 · Byre Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.21 | ¥3,228)

Book Good Cornell University Press Ithaca A biography of the leader of the Mohegan people in 17th century Connecticut. Light wear to covers, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

Letters on Ornithology 1804 - 1815 between George Montagu and Robert Anstice

Montagu, George and Anstice, Robert, edited by S Peter Dance · 2003 · Byre Books

£38.83 (€46.54 | $51.30 | ¥8,192)

Book Very Good Very Good G C Books Wigtown No inscriptions, VG in VG DJ.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Bellis, H · 1953 · Byre Books

£12.94 (€15.51 | $17.10 | ¥2,730)

Book Very Good Newnes Educational Publishing London In the series 'Women of Renown'. Small booklet, some minor grubby marks but generally VG, no inscriptions.

Tak' Tent o'Time: memories of a post-Edwardian Edinburgh childhood

Wilson, Elaine Mary · 1992 · Byre Books

£9.41 (€11.28 | $12.43 | ¥1,985)

Book Good Good Plenderleath Edinburgh Ex-library. Clean, sound and good in slightly edge-worn, marked, good DJ.

Richard Cameron: Famous Scots series

Herkless, John · 0 · Byre Books

£23.53 (€28.20 | $31.09 | ¥4,964)

Book Good Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier Edinburgh / London Undated: preface dated 1896. In the Famous Scots series. Giving an outline of the Covenant and the 'killing times', as well as a biography. Illustrative red cloth worn and marked, name to ffep, very occasional faint tra...

August Bournonville: My Theatre Life

Bournonville, August, translated and annotated by Patricia N McAndrew · 1979 · Byre Books

£91.77 (€110.00 | $121.24 | ¥19,361)

Book Very Good Good Adam & Charles Black London An autobiography of the dancer and ballet-master, covering Danish and European artistic-social-cultural life in the later 19thC. Red cloth, no inscriptions, VG in worn and rubbed good DJ, not price-clipped. A heavy book.

Keir Hardie pictorial biography

Hughes, Emrys · 1950 · Byre Books

£37.65 (€45.13 | $49.74 | ¥7,943)

Book Good Signed by Author(s) Lincolns-Prager London The original paper covered pamphlet has been bound in red cloth, worn and marked, worn gold lettering to the spine, signed to the title page by the author: 'To Tom Brown with all good wishes from Emrys Hughes 1.3 50'. Pages ...

John MacGregor ('Rob Roy')

Hodder, Edwin · 1895 · Byre Books

£37.65 (€45.13 | $49.74 | ¥7,943)

Book Good Hodder Brothers London Popular edition. A biography of the canoeist and traveler. Red cloth a little worn and marked, softening to the spine top and tail, tissue-guarded frontis, 9 plates, 33 sketches, pages yellowed, one gathering loosening, good, no DJ.

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia etc, 7 vols complete

Fanny Burney, edited by her niece · 1854 · Byre Books

£94.13 (€112.83 | $124.36 | ¥19,859)

Book Good for Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett London Seven volumes complete, a new edition. Original decorative blue cloth worn and marked, hinges a little soft, heraldic name plate (Stewart of Murdostoun) to front paste-down all vols, no other inscriptions...

The Red Book of Heroes

Mrs Lang, edited by Andrew Lang · 1909 · Byre Books

£21.18 (€25.39 | $27.98 | ¥4,468)

Book Good Longmans, Green, and Co London Inspirational biographies for the Edwardian child. Red cloth worn and marked, with illustrative decorations in gold, gilt all round, illustrative eps rather marked, no inscriptions, tissue-guarded frontis, coloured plates and b/w illust...

The Rebel Earl and other studies

Roughead, William · 1926 · Byre Books

£7.98 (€9.57 | $10.54 | ¥1,684)

Book Good W Green and Son Edinburgh Tales of true crime, mainly from Scotland. Brown cloth worn and marked, wear to top of spine, no inscriptions, 10 plates, stain to margin of frontis, foxing throughout at times heavy, tight and sound, good, no DJ.

Victor Willing: a retrospective exhibition

Serota, Nicholas, ed. · 1986 · Byre Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.21 | ¥3,228)

Book Good Whitechapel With a biographical and critical essay by Lynne Cooke, an interview with the artist by John McEwen, some of the artist's writings, 22 pages of coloured plates, a catalogue of the exhibition, biography and bibliography. Covers a little marked and sunned, n...

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824

Waterton, Charles, edited by J G Wood · 1885 · Byre Books

£51.11 (€61.26 | $67.52 | ¥10,783)

Book Good Macmillan & Co. London A 'new edition' with a biographical introduction and explanatory index. 100 illustrations. Green cloth a little worn and marked, gold lettering and pelican to spine, black beasts and bird decorating the black title to the front board, black end...

Braehead: three founding families in nineteenth century Canada

Maclaren, Sherrill · 1986 · Byre Books

£9.98 (€11.96 | $13.18 | ¥2,105)

Book Very Good Good McLelland and Stewart Toronto Family histories of Scottish emigrants that illustrate early years in the Canadian West. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly worn, good DJ. A heavy book.

William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian

Bryant, Keith L · 1991 · Byre Books

£24.71 (€29.62 | $32.65 | ¥5,213)

Book Very Good Very Good University of Missouri Press Columbia A biography of a leading American artist and teacher. VG in VG DJ.

William the Conqueror

Douglas, David C · 1964 · Byre Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Very Good Good Eyre and Spottiswoode London Both a biography of the medieval king and an assessment of French and English scholarship regarding him. VG, no inscriptions, in worn, chipped, mended, good DJ. A heavy book.