Cloth covered card with black titles, very light shelfwear but otherwise Near Fine, dustwrapper with some loss to front and rear covers and head of spine, some light rubbing but otherwise in Very Good condition and now enclosed in a clear archival wrapper. New edition, pp 264, 48 circular tours and 51 maps, index, adverts on endpapers . View More...
Linen covered card covers, small blemish to spine and edge of front board, some light fading to spine, light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition. New edition, pp 80, 80, first 80 pages are coloured maps including Railway and Underground stations, Theatre and Clubland and sectional maps with key for much of Greater London, second 80 pages includes a guide to London, places of interest, streets index. View More...
Hardcover in original quarter leather binding and cloth reinforced corners with marbled paper covered boards, some damage to edge of spine possibly from worm, light wear to head and foot of spine, previous owners bookplate on front end paper "Colonel T. Innes of Learney" but otherwise in Very Good condition. "New Edition" c. late 1800s, pp 392. "This Son of Vulcan. By the authors of Ready-Money Mortiboy. With James Rice." View More...
Two Volumes bound in One. Hardcover with quarter leather binding with cloth covered boards, gilt titles and marbled edges, some light wear to head and foot of spine. New edition, pp lxii, 447, 478, b&w engravings, colour clan tartans, fold out maps. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED. View More...
Stapled pamplet wit illustrated laminated card covers, Some light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition. New edition, pp 28, b&w illustrations with map to rear. A guide to the wildlife and walking routes around Loch Muick and Lochnagar area. View More...
Illustrated card covers, New. 2010 Corrected Edition, pp viii, 312, b&w illustrations throughout, bibliography. Children of the Black House is a fascinating glimpse into life on the Hebridean island of Lewis from the closing years of the nineteenth century up to the 1950s. Calum Ferguson employs an unusual narrative technique, drawing on his mother Mairead's reminiscences, and presenting her experiences and conversation in the first person. This is a fascinating account of a culture in transition; it records and preserves for twenty-first-century readers traditions and ways of life which ha... View More...
Illustrated card covers, As New. New edition 2004, pp 286, b&w plates, glossary, index. The complete history of the rise and fall of the most feared military and security force of the twentieth century. The SS was to be an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to prevent the underminning of the Nazi Party by rendering its potential enemies 'harmless'. View More...
Card covers, some slight creasing but otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrapper with some wear, rubbing and chipping, scuff to front cover but otherwise in Very Good condition. New edition, pp 184, View More...
Illustrated card covers, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Near Fine condition. New edition, Signed by Author, pp 160, b&w illustrations in text, colour illustrations in centre, bibliography, index. A guide to diving Scapa Flow, the site of the scuttling of the German fleet at the end of World War I. This book details just what divers can expect to encounter: the dangers posed by the depth, darkness, cold and wrecks themselves. Advice on the equipment needed is also provided. View More...
New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition. New edition published by Deeside Books, pp 12, xii, 84, map to rear, index. Ben Muich Dhui and his Neighbours is one of the earliest and scarcest of Alex Inkson McConnochie's publications and its printing in 1885 makes it a forerunner of the guide books used by today's hillwalkers. This book outlines the different routes across the Cairngorms along with the best ways of obtaining access, as well as the author providing vivid descriptions of the local scenery. The sport of hillwalking was still in its infancy in the latter part of the 19th cen... View More...
New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition.Pages vi, 220, plus all of the original full page illustrations and the 3 maps. The version reproduced here is from the two shilling hardback first edition with its original pagination and advertisments, published in 1900 (the 1985 J.G. Bisset version adpoted the much smaller typeface used in the cheaper one shilling paper board covered edition published in 1901, with the consequent reduction in the number of pages to 134 and a different set of advertisments). McConnochie was an avid hillwalker and a competent local historian, and his guideb... View More...
New cloth-covered paperback book in mint condition, pages, xx, 201. First published in 1877, this copy is a replica of the larger and revised second edition of 1910 with all of the original photographic plates, illustrations within the text, and also the coloured frontispiece. There is a new introduction with a brief biography of the Rev. John Grant Michie and also recommendations of which of the current Ordnance Survey maps are best suited to the area. This book gives an historical overview of the Deeside locale right from the early prehistoric period through to the Civil War and up to the 19... View More...
Folklore and history from the Glens of Royal Deeside and Beyond New book. New edition, republished 2023, pp vi, 154 with numerous B&W and colour illustrations. Signed copy.
Ian Murray has explored the glens which reach out from Ballater, Braemar and Aviemore and has recorded the voices of many of the older folk to present a history of the Cairngorms in their own words by their own firesides - represents the authentic voice of the Cairngorms. View More...
Softcover in Fine condition, previous owner's bookplate tipped in on inside cover, date and place in pencil on endpaper. New edition, pp140, b&w illustrations by Lucy Wilkinson. Chatter of Choughs: An Anthology Celebrating the Return of Cornwall's Legendary Bird. View More...
Hardcover in original paper covered boards with titles, rough cut pages, front end paper missing, some wear to boards and spine but otherwise in Very Good condition. New Abridged Edition, pp 389, frontis. View More...
Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titles to spine in Fine condition, dustwrapper with some slight shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. New 2004 edition, pp ix, 230, b&w illustrations, index. View More...
Hardcover in contemporary half leather binding with marbled paper over boards, marbled end papers, gilt titles on black leather label to spine, some shelfwear and rubbing to boards and leather, spine slightly faded, some slight foxing, previous owner's name in ink on title page dated 1835 but otherwise in Very Good condition commensurate with age. New Edition, pp 328, b&w engravings, appendix, index. View More...
New book in laminated hardcovers. New Edition, pp 213, colour illustrations, bibliography. In this book the authors present many unpublished place names from Upper Deeside and from counties in the Highlands beyond. These were heard from indigenous folk back to 1941. Names are given with phonetic spellings, so that readers can pronounce them accurately, and in most cases with translations from Gaelic, Norse, Scots or Pictish into English. The book is richly illustrated with 130 photographs of places and informants. Of interest to residents and visitors, it should help preserve for the future an... View More...
Hardcover in tan cloth with silver titles to spine, some light shelfwear and slight fading to edges but otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrapper with some light rubbing to edges but otherwise in Very Good condition now enclosed in a clear archival wrapper. New edition, Signed by Author on Fep, pp 224, b&w illustrations to rear, index. View More...
