Scotland from JimsOldBooks

Lerwick, Shetland: The Shetland Times Ltd, 1973. Some creasing and small tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of blue-gray boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Anecdotal memoirs by the author, including service in the Great War in France in the artillery and in Shetland during WW2 as a medical… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 2001. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, original owner's gift message on f/ep, some yellowing to the pages (NOT from tobacco), but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The twelfth of the author's "Rebus" stories, this one involves the search for a missing girl.… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1987. No dustwrapper (as issued), a few dent marks on the covers, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being a collection of comedy sketches, monologues and songs, originally performed between 1973 and 1986, from the well-known (at the time, anyway, in the 1970s and 80s) Scottish comedy trio. 272pp,… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A biography of Sir John sinclair of Ulbster, probably most-remembered for his "Statistical Account of Scotland", but also was an agricultural improver, MP for Caithness, and builder of… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1987. Very slight creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, oherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book in which the author looks at fishing in the river Truim on Speyside. Originally published in 1960, this is a much later edition from 1987. 125pp, some b&w drawings.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1981. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spne ends of blue boards, also some fading to top and bottom edges of same. Original owner's ink stamp on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of thus hard-cover book. Eight stories by the author set on the Orkney island of Flotta, with… Read more about this item

Dunbeath, Caithness: Dunbeath Publication Trust, 1985. A slight fold to outer edge of front cover, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no rusting to the staples, of this slim soft-cover booklet. A collection of folktales from Dunbeath in Caithness, including ones on Ghosts, Witches, Fairies, Fishing superstitions and others. The author and… Read more about this item

Lerwick, Shetland: The Shetland Library, 2002. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a very good clean tight copy in of this slim hardback collection of forty-three poems by the author. Mostly in Shetland dialect, but some in English as well. 64pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1983. No dustwrapper (as issued), minor bumping to spine ends and corners of illustrated boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of short pieces by the author, originally published between 1960 and 1982 in local newspapers where she wrote as "Countrywoman". Many of the pieces deal with nature, some… Read more about this item

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1993. A very slight crease to the spine and minor scuffing to outer corners of the cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. A collection of pieces by the author, who wrote as "Countrywoman" in her local newspaper, on trips to various parts of Orkney. 165pp, small b&w drawings.. Paperback. Good/No… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2003. Some creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, also a small tear to top end of spine of same, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Lists all the known wrecks in the north of Scotland from Stonehaven north to Orkney and Shetland and west to Cape Wrath. A heavy book, packaged weight… Read more about this item

Stromness, Orkney: Stromness Books and Prints, 2013. Some creasing to bottom edge of front cover, also scuffing to outer corners of same, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A novel set in Orkney and in Edinburgh between the 1970s and 1990s. "Iss" is an Orkney pronunciation of "us". Signed… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2000. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Issued to accompany and exhibition (The Scottish Colourists 1900-1930) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh between July 200 and January 2001. Looks at the work of the Scottish painters Francis Cadell,… Read more about this item

Lerwick, Shetland: The Shetland Times Ltd, 1984. Slight scuffing to spine ends and creasing to covers, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover booklet. A collection of knitting designs used in traditional Shetland or Fair Isle patterns. NOT a collection of patterns for knitted garments, just the designs which would be used on them. Originally published in 1979,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1948. Quite a few tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, particularly to the edges of the spine, some bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. Originally published in 1946, this is a third impression from February 1948. 464pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo -… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: T N Foulis, 1910. No dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of brown buckram boards, gilt ttiles on spine are a little bit rubbed but still readable, those on front board are still bright, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks a the history and antiquities of the island of Arran. 231pp… Read more about this item

London: B T Batsford, 1952. Some creasing and a few tears to edges of unclipped (but price erased) dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, a previous owners gift message on f/ep, some foxing to page edges and also to the dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Minor crreasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, original owner's gift message on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the life and family history of Christian Watt, who was born in Fraserburgh in 1833, was sent to the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1935. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of buff cloth-covered boards, red titles and decoration are rubbed but still readable, the crest on front board is still clear. Binding split inside front and back covers, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the various women in… Read more about this item

London: W & R Chambers Ltd, 1954. Price-clipped dustwrapper is in quite poor shape, with tears to the right-hand side at top and bottom ends of the spine, pieces missing and other tears to edges. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, Otherwise a sound clean copy of this hard-cover novel set in the Scottish Highlands. The… Read more about this item