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London: Collins, 1959. Quite a lot odf creasing and some tears to edges of unclipped (original price 15 shillings) dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover bok. A novel set on a Flying Doctor station in the Western Australian outback, the story involves a doctor from… Read more about this item

London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1937. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red illustrated boards (cowboy on front board, football goalie on spine), but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no splitting to the binding inside, of this large hard-cover book. The forty-fourth (of forty-eight) "Chums" annual, containing four book-length stories ("The Gold Trail" by… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, top corner of f/ep has been clipped, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1957, this is a much later edition from 1980. The first of the author's books based on his service in the German Army during WW2,… Read more about this item

London: Persephone Books, 2014. Persephone paperback edition, book number 71, but without original bookmark, unfortunately. Very slight creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Originally published in 1907, and published by Persephone in an abridged form (reduced in length by a quarter, but still 476pp, they… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2008. A very good clean tight copy, with no wear to the green slipcase, of this hard-cover book. Green boards with gilt titles and black decoration on front and spine. Originally published in 1911 and as a Folio edition in 2006, this is a fifth printing from 2008. 273pp, 8 full-page clour illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item

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

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Some creasing and a few small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, with a small piece missing at bottom end of spine. Minor bumping to ends of green cloth spine and to corners of red and black patterned paper-covered boards, a previous (original?) owner's name on f/ep, some foxing to outer pages, but otherwise a good… Read more about this item

Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2022. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A novel with quite a strong Christian emphasis, set in Shetland between 1829 and 1873 and dealing with the lives of Ann and Robert Leslie, the great-great grandparents of the… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926. No dustwrapper, old damp-marking to red boards and some fading to spine, but black titles thereon are still clear, those on front board are rubbed but still readable. Some bumping to spine ends and corners, original owner's name on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains six stories… Read more about this item

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1989. A very good clen tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover book. A collection of short science-fiction stories by Scottish authors. This is the original, hard-cover edition published by the Orkney Press in 1989, there is a later, paperback version from the New Curiosity Shop published in 2018. 211pp..… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1993. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A later novel by the author, this one is set on an (imaginary, but based on Haiti) island in the Caribbean and deals with an elderly Canadian Catholic priest looking back on his life on the island, and on the… 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

London: Companion Book Club, 1955. Companion Book Club edition from 1955. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, some brown marking to spine, but title panel thereon is still bright. Otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains three collections of stories featuring the Italian village Priest Don Camillo; namely ''The… Read more about this item

London: Jarrolds, 1959. Ex penny library copy (Eskside Lending Library, Musselburgh) with f/ep remoned, ink stamp and number on title page, first and last pages of text, and on last page. Unclipped dustwrapper has creasing and tears to the edges, with the top inch or so and the bottom two inches missing at the spine. Some bumping to spine ends… Read more about this item

London: Martin Secker, 1929. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, old cup-marks on front board, spine has faded to a khaki colour but gilt titles thereon are still clear, as is the small gilt illustration of a knight and a beggar on front board, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this small… 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

London: Readers Union, 1952. Readers Union edition from 1952. No dustwrapper, spine of blue boards has faded to a khaki colour, but titles thereon are still clear, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover historical novel. The story is based around the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1595. 417pp, 1 map.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard… 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

London: William Heinemann, 1936. Leather-bound edition with leather spine and corners, gilt decoration and two labels (title and author) to spine, and top edge of pages gilt.. Minor scuffing to top corners of cover and to a lesser extent to bottom corners and bottom end of spine. Binding splitting at title page, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of… Read more about this item

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. A crease to the spine and to corners of back cover, some scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, but otherwise a not too bad copy of this soft-cover book. The story deals with a girl working in a Childrens Home with just the eight residents (the "Awful Eight" of the title). 125pp, 6 b&w… Read more about this item