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By: Buchan, Peter.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: William Paterson, 1875.: 0
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 715
Condition: Very Good
Hardback, in two volumes, in very good condition. Some spine discolouration, SCARCE COPIES. Green cloth covers. No dustwrappers issued. Reprinted from the original edition of 1828. Volume one: ppxx, 315, with a dedication to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, by Peter Buchan, introduction and contents page. Volume two: ppvii, 337, with explanatory notes. Hitherto unpublished ancient Scottish songs and ballads of the North of Scotland. Counter shelf. View more info
By: Buchan, Peter.
Price: £65.00
Publisher: Wyllie & Son, 1891.: 0
Edition: Presumed 1st Edition
Seller ID: 704
Condition: Very Good
Hardback in very good condition, green cloth cover, no dustwrapper. SCARCE COPY, pp216. Previous owner's name written in ink on end paper. With contents page. This book of scarce ballads includes the ballads: Sir James the Rose, Alcanzor and Zaida, Bryan and Pereene, Young Gregor's Ghost, Loch-in-Var, Queen Eleanor's confession, Lorenzo and many more. Counter Shelf. View more info
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Birlinn, 2009. 9781906566012: 2009
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 807
ISBN: 1906566011
Condition: Fine
Paperback, Fine condition. First edition, pp xxiv, 263, bibliography, index. The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection" from North-East Scotland, created in the early years of the twentieth century by Gavin Greig and James Bruce Duncan, is of national and international importance. In its published form it contains 1,933 songs, available in eight volumes arranged thematically. This selection for performers contains 150 songs from the main collection, and takes as its focus 28 of the singers from whom the songs were originally collected. Comes with CD attached. S10. View more info
By: Gibson, John G.
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Birlinn, 2005. 1841583340: 2005
Seller ID: 305
ISBN: 1841583340
Condition: Fine
Paperback in fine condition, 2nd impression. Ppxiii, 424. With b&w photographs and illustrations, with charts, notes, bibliography and index. S4.Old and New World Highland Bagpiping is a stimulating and controversial book which also provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in both Highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton. The result of over thirty years' oral fieldwork among the last of the Gaels in Cape Breton, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival sources, this book shows that traditional community bagpiping in the Old and New Worl... View more info
By: Greig, Gavin.
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Aberdeen City Council, 1996. 0946920141: 1996
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 818
ISBN: 0946920141
Condition: Very Good
Paperback, Very Good condition. New edition [1912], pp viii, 59, 14 plates of original music scans. A classic doric play, including the scans of original sheet music. S10. View more info
By: Johnson, James & Burns, Robert.
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Scolar Press, 1991.: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 1380
Condition: Very Good
2 Volumes: Hardbacks, in Very Good condition with dustwrappers in Very Good condition. Both volumes in original slipcase, in Very Good condition. First edition, pp 28, 310, vi, 620, 81, 21, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. SCARCE. From 1787 Burns became involved in a project of the Edinburgh music-seller James Johnson, to collect and publish the words and music of all Scottish songs. Johnson had published the first volume of 'The Scots Musical Museum' in 1787, and thereafter Burns made a major contribution to the rest of the collection. POSTAGE RATES ARE BASED ON A BOOK WEIGHT UP TO... View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: BBC, 1968.: 1968
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 206
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated card covers previous owners inscription, in Very Good condition. Scarce title, first edition, pp 88, with b&w illustrations. The history of the bagpipe and classical bagpipe music. S4. View more info
By: Michael Newton.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd: 2009
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 005065
ISBN: 1841588261
Condition: As New
Paperback, as new. First edition. With ppxvi, 424, with b&w illustrations. With maps, bibliography and index. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of t... View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Paterson's Publication Ltd.: 1951
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 003286
Condition: Very Good
Some shelf wear and slight foxing to the front end paper. Small tear on page 29. Previous owner's name on tipped in label on front end paper. Notes in pencil on rear end paper. The Scottish Country Dance Manual, written by the co-founder of the Scottish Dance Society and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Council. Foreword by His Grace the Duke of Atholl, President of the Scottish Country Dance Society. S2. View more info
By: No Author.
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Alexander Gardner, 1893.: 1893
Edition: New Edition
Seller ID: 716
Condition: Very Good
Hardback in very good condition, green cloth covers. New and revised edition. Ppxxxiv, 656, contents page, general introduction. Ballads of Scotland, romantic and historical, collated and annotated. Counter shelf. View more info
