The peat-fire flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands and Islands by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor - 1947

(Edinburgh: The Ettrick Press: 1947) Reprinted with corrections (only previous was the first edition of 1937). Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xx, 339. With 56 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Glossary. Index. First Edition. About fine copy in good dust-jacket.

Edinburgh: Ettrick Press, 1947 lacks dust jacket, head of lower board and back few pages have damp stain, still a good reading copy of the revised and corrected second edition, xx 339pp + plates, Scottish history and legend, folk lore, owner details to paste down. revised. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Dj is price clipped; closed tears and small chips out of head and tail of spine have been thoroughly restored . 2 small 14 & 23mm long wood-borer holes in the gutters, now treated. Name of Peggy MacLeod 1944 and a lengthy gift inscription . (The author dedicated this work to Kenneth MacCleod so there is a clan connection) . 56 b&w photos; top edge coloured. Rare.

Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1937. . First edition, 8vo, pp.xix,339, blue cloth, gilt, 32 b/w photographic plates; foxing/toning to fore-edges (with just occasional foxing to margins), rubbing to extremities, spine lightly dulled, a good++ copy. No dust-jacket.

Edinburgh & London: The Moray Press, 1937. First Edition, First Printing . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author. Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands. Preface by author dated June, 1937 at 14, Paulton's Square, Chelsea, S.W., 3. 328 pp. plus: Glossary, Index. Blue boards have black text on spine only. Edges and extremities are worn and scuffed, front gutter starting and showing gauze, 3/4" scuff top of rear panel. Digital pictures available on request. Bookseller's inventory # 122679.