Creaking Shelves Books

The Dewar Manuscripts. Volume One. Scottish West Highland Folk Tales. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Rev. John Mackechnie in Original Slip Case

Dewar, John · 1964

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

William MacLellan, 1964. Hardcover. Vol.1 but all published. 397p plates. Bright yellow buckram boards with titles on spine and decorative ship motif on upper board. The book is cased and protected in the original illustrated slip case which is wrapped with a duplicate d/w. Cl...

Seven Years in Tibet

Harrer, Heinrich · 1953

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Hardcover. 5th impression published in the same year as the fist edution.288p, photos, map. The book is clean and tight but with a neat gift inscripo pn ythe fep. See scans . Very Good

Poems

William Ernest Henley · 1901

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

David Nutt, 1901. Hardcover. xiii+256p. Portrait frontis; Some war tp te bpards and spine and front hinge stretched. Some toning butan excellent reading copy of the fifth edition printed inDecember 1901. See scans . Good

The Clergy and the Clearances: The Church and the Highland Crisis, 1790-1850

Paton, David · 2006

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

John Donald, 2006. Soft Cover. 251p. Concentrates on the Northern Highlands taking evidence from Sutherland and Ross. The book is clean, tight and appears little read though some light creasing of the spine. See scans. (ISBN: 0859766268).. Very Good

This Is Norway

Lingstrom, Freda · 1933

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Gerald Howe, 1933. Hardcover. 152p profusely illustrated. Coloured frontis; endpaper maps. This is Norway is at once a guide book and a Souvenir of the Norwegian State Railways...The book is clean, tight and unmarked while the unclipped d/w is chipped as seen. See scans. . Ver...

Scaling the Heights - Miniature Mountaineering - an Exhibition Which Explores the Rich Heritage of Mountaineering Literature

Stephen Livingstone & Abbie Garrington · 2018

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Pubd. By Authors?, 0. Soft Cover. np (48p) illustrated. Not dated but 2018. The book of an Exhibition of Action Men teams, fully equipped and dressed in appropriate climbing gear, posed in a series of around thirty scenarios improvised on the shelves, stacks and stores of 11 i...

Restcot Catalogue C. 1940- Catalogue of Childrens Clothes, Cots, Bedding , Shawls, Coats, High Chairs Etc

0

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Restcots (and Hutchings and Company, 0. Soft Cover. 24p original catalogue of Restcots (and Hutchings and Company) of Children's clothes, cots, bedding , shawls, coats, high chairs etc. Illustrated with accompanying price list and original letter to a prospective customer type...

Palestine and the Legacy of Balfour

Hugh Humphries · 2006

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Scottish Friends of Palestine, 2006. Soft Cover. xiv+231p. Coloured frontis, maps and diagrams. The book is clean and unmarked and appears little used. See scans. (ISBN: 0952121034).. Very Good

The Caledonian Connection: Scotland-Russia Ties: Middle Ages to Early Twentieth Century

Fedosov, Dimitry · 1989

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

University of Aberdeen Centre for Scottish Studies, 1989. Soft Cover. 122p. Clean and unmarked apart from With best regards Dimitry Fedosov handwritten art the top of the title page. See scans. (ISBN: 0906265223).. Very Good

The Journal of Corporal Todd 1745 -1762

Cormack, Andrew & Jones, Alan (Editors) · 2001

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Army Records Society, 2001. Hardcover. 342p line maps and plates on endpapers. The Journal of Corporal Todd is a remarkably rare 'Other Ranks' record from a period when most common soldiers were illiterate. Detailed appendices and bibliography. Near fine copy without marks or ...

Guide to the Geology of the Whitby District

Leo Walmsley · 2008

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Walmsley Society, 2008. Soft Cover. 40p illustrated with fossils and a strip map of fossil bearing localities at Robin Hood's Bay. This is the 2008 reprint of the 1914 original. Clean and unmarked though a little corner wear and signs of a label removal on the front cover. See...

Capitalism and Slavery

Williams, Eric · 1967

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Andre Deutsch, 0. Soft Cover. The second impression by Andre Deutsch 1967 of this famous book first published in the UK in 1964.Wiki: It was published in the United States in 1944. In Britain, Williams sought to have it published, but major publishers refused it, on grounds in...

A Day's March to Ruin: Badenoch Men in the Fortyfive and Col. Ewan Macpherson of Cluny

Alan Gibson Macpherson · 1996

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Clan Macpherson Association, 1996. Soft Cover. 318p illustrated.In near fine unmarked condition. See scans (ISBN: 0952858703).. Near Fine

About Galloway Folk

A Galloway Herd · 1889

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. Soft Cover. 94p. A couthy review of the folk from God's own Country. Sewn binding which is strained but all pages present and bound in.No marks or signatures but some corner wear. UncommonSee scans. . Good +

Big Pit Mining Museum Blaenavon, South Wales

1980

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Big Pit Mining Museum, 0. Soft Cover. 16p glossy brochure undated c.1980 for The Big Pit Mining Museum in South Wales which offers underground tours. Clean and in near fine littl;e used condition. See scans . Near Fine

Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository for the Year 1860 Withadvertising List.

1959

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oliver & Boyd, 1959. Hardcover. 804 pages, and 76 advertisement pages.Lisys of everything! Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges, Lord Lieutenants, sheriffs etc for each Scottish county and etc. The book is tight and clean in original brown leather boards but the spine ...

Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository for the Year 1847 Bound with the Western Supplement Comprehending Lists Connected with the City of Glasgow and Western Counties of Scotland

1846

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Oliver & Boyd, 1846. Hardcover. 552 pages, 1845 pages, and advertisement pages (32 and 120 pages).The Western Supplement carries considerable detail including lists of trading vessels, literary and scientific institutions and detailed lists of physicians, clergy, cemeteries, n...

City of the Dead: A Guide to Glasgow's Southern Necropolis

2007

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Glasgow City Libraries & Archives, 2007. Soft Cover. 80p with many illustrations and folding plan of the Necropolis inside the rear card cover. The book follows a suggested itinerary around the cemetery. Clean, unmarked and in fine condition. See scans. (ISBN: 9780906169650).....

Air Raid Sirens and Fire Buckets: Wartime in Seychelles 1939-1945

Ducrotoy, Athalie · 1997

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Rawlings Publications, 1997. Soft Cover. (ISBN: 9780952655619).. Near Fine

Burn on the Hill - the Story of the First Compleat Munroist

Allan, Elizabeth · 1995

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Bidean Books, 1995. Hardcover. 186p stated limited edition No1972. The story pieced together by the author of an eccentric priest - the first to do them all. Ronnie Burn was a short legged hunchback and a social misfit; his navigation was pathetic and he was not even competent...