Creaking Shelves Books

The Southern Upland Way (Recreational Path Guides)

Anthony Burton; Ordnance Survey · 1997

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Aurum Press, 1997. Hardcover. 168p detailed guide in 1st edition. This book has been there! Though no signtaures and the binding os firm, the binding is cocked and some evidence of old damping and a crease on the front cover. An excellent copy for the rucksack. See scans (ISBN...

Shell Guide to the Routeburn Track

Philip Temple · 1976

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Imprint unknown, 1976. Soft Cover. 40p illustrated.Map. An outline of this 39Km route on the South Island of New Zealand, north of Queenstown.In clean unmarked condition. See scans. (ISBN: 0723304858).. Very Good

A Pox on the Provinces Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine

1991

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Bath University Press, 1991. Hardcover. A diverse collection of papers on Medical History. See scans for titles. Book clean, tight and unmarked and VG - in like unpriceclipped d/w.222p ill. (ISBN: 0861971124).. Very Good

Stells, Stools, Strupag - a Personal Reminiscence of Sheep, Shepherding and the Social Activities of a Highland Parish.

Slimon, Campbell · 2007

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Laggan Heritage 2000, 2007. Soft Cover. Stells = sheep shelter; stools = clipping stools Strupag = fill up of tea or spirits. Substantial book of 188 pages of local history of the Laggan and Dalwhinnie are of the central Highlands. Well illustrated with photos, reproductions o...

Women and Children First. : The Loss of the Troopship Empire Windrush

Captain W.N.Seybold, FNI (Compiled by) · 1998

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Captain W.N. Seybold (Author), 1998. Hardcover. Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.[...

Rambling Recollections of Past Times : Embracing a Period from the Termination of the Last Till the Close of the Twentieth Year of the Present Century

Adam Dawson, Esq of Bonnytoun · 1868

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Private Circulation, 1868. Hardcover. 76p collection of paper contributed from time to time to the Falkirk Herald. Informative and amusing. In original dark blue cloth boards with gilt titlied; boards have few marks and some wear at corners and egdes. Internally the book is ti...

(Anchors) Patents for Inventions. Abridgements of Specifications Relating to Anchors, A.D. 1796-1866.

1874

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Eyre & Spottiswoode for HMSO andbthevCommissioners of Patents, 1874. Soft Cover. xvi+72p+16p list of books publihed by the patent Office. Published to describe numerous patents received from inventors of new anchors in chronological order with each described .From 1796 with an...

Our Breton Friends. A Short Account of a Visit to Ushant and Molene, After the Loss of the Drummond Castle in June, 1896

Mirrielees, J · 1896

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. Hardcover. The Drummond, Castle was lost off Ushant on the night of the 16th June 1896. Two hundred and forty-nine souls were on board, out of whom only three were saved ; fifty-nine bodies were recovered and buried. Queen Victoria bestow...

Early Man in Eastern Himalayas

Shri A.K. Sharma · 1996

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Aryan Books International, 1996. Hardcover. The book gives a vivid pictures of the prehistoric past of North-East India and Nepal. Till recent years the activities of Early Man in Eastern Himalayas were shrouded in mystery due to lack of archaeological investigations but recen...

Tales of a Dynamite Pedlar

Murray, Frank · 0

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Pubd By Author, . Soft Cover. Undated; 78p well illustrated. Self published autobipography. See scans. . Very Good +

The Challenge of Antarctica

Eleanor Honnywill · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Anthony Nelson Ltd, 1984. Hardcover. 127p ill inc.index - A distillation of Antarctic History. Book clean, tight and unmarked with like unclipped protected d/w. See scans. (ISBN: 0904614093).. Very Good +

Old Glencoe & Ballachulish

Hutton, Guthrie · 2011

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Stenlake Publishing, 2011. Soft Cover. 56p in depth descriptions of old picrures of Old Glencoe & Ballachulisjh. . Covers Ballachulish Ferry, Glencoe, Ballachuliish Slate Quarry, Kingshouse Hotel, Mountaineering, Oban to Ballachulish Railway and etc. Clean and unmarked. See sc...

Cambridge Mountaineering 1972

Chisholm, R.A. (Editor) · 1972

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Charles Elphick Biggleswade, 1972. Soft Cover. 1972 volume of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club Journal. 75p ill.+adverts. Articles on Ben Nevis, Seneca Rockes West Virginia, Chamionix, Cuillins Skye, Orion Face Direct (Ben Nevis) and etc. Book internally clean and ...

Cambridge Mountaineering 1969

Cardy, J.L. (Editor0 · 1969

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Charles Elphick Biggleswade, 1969. Soft Cover. 1969 volume of the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club Journal. 75p ill.+adverts. Articles on the North Kohistan Expidition 1968, Yosemite, the Ruwenzori and Mount Kenya, Carnivore, Glencoe Scotland and etc. Book internally c...

A Liquid Measure of Highland History - Off Print from Tgsi

Whittet, Martin · 1987

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

For the Author, 1987. Soft Cover. Reprinted in titled card covers from the Transcations of the Gaelic Society of Inverness Vol. LIV. 98p 2 coloured plates. The author was the Superintendant of Craig Dunan Psychiatric Hospital, Invernes and gained a vast experience of the probl...

Folk Music Journal - 1980 (Vol. 4 No. 1, 1982 & 1983 (Vols. 4 Nos 3 & 4).

0

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

The English Folk Dance and Song Society, . Soft Cover. Each 70-100 pages in original yellow card covers. slighly dusty but still VG. See scans . Very Good

The Liberated Woman's Song Book

Silverman, Jerry · 1971

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Collier Books, 1971. Soft Cover. From Suffragettes to Women's Lib Today. Here are the voices of women - oppressed and liberated, tragic and humorous - protesting wrongs, demanding rights, and singing of freedom. The Liberated Women's Song Book traces the history of The Women's...

Brief Memoir of Rev J C Atkinson, D.C. L. - Prefioxed to a Reprint of Forty Yeras in a Moorland Parish

MacMillan, George A. · 1907

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

, 1907. Original Sewn Binding. No publisher recorded;xxxvi 2 plates.A Prefatory memoir concernong the life of Rev. Atkinson, author of British birds' eggs and their nests and Forty years in a moorland parish. This offprint was from the first edition of Mooland Parish after the...

Golliwog in Fairyland or How Edward the Teddy Bear Became a Knight

Cockrell, Maud · 1921

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

Gowans & Gray Ltd, 1921. Soft Cover. Preface: This charming play owes it's attractiveness in large measure to the fact that it was written by the author, who is still a schoolgirl, at the age of sixteen. Hence its freshness, its directness, and its strong appeal to all young p...

Imray Nautical Chart Thames Estuary : Northern Part (Home Waters Charts)

IMray, J.R. · 1994

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd., 1994. . Imary Nautical Chart Imray Nautical Chart Thames Estuary : Northern Part (Home Waters Charts)Clean and unmarked. See scans. Size: Folds to A3 (ISBN: 0852881665).. Very Good +