Search Results: Authors starting with E from Byre Books

Cambridge: University Press, 1968 Reprint. Text in Latin, notes in English. VG, no inscriptions or annotation.

Faber and Faber, 1981 Grey cloth lightly marked, name to half-title, no other inscriptions, internally VG, in VG DJ.

London: Friends Book Centre, 1939 Reprint. In the series Friends Ancient and Modern, No. 20. A brief biographical sketch of the anti-slavery campaigner. Sewn booklet, wear to spine, name to front cover, good.

Canada: The Author, 1960 Revised edition. First published in 1942, this is the 'first authentic text book on Curling'. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn and marked, names blacked out to the front cover, some grubby marks to pages, sound, good.

London: HMSO, 1958 Reprint. Fold-out plan and map. Stapled booklet, covers slightly sunned and marked, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

M Bousquet et Fils, 1981 The caves and prehistoric sites, illus. in b/w. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, generally VG.

Methuen & Co, 1898 Two volumes complete. Dark blue cloth much worn and marked, gilt on top, stamp of the Shetland Literary and Scientific Society to the ffeps, title pages and some other pages, grubby marks to prelims, some gatherings loosening, good only. Heavy books.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Centre of Canadian Studies, 1985 Eleven papers presented at the tenth annual conference of the British Association of Canadian Studies in 1985. Covers lightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, clean and sound, VG.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847 Illustrated with many woodcuts. Original blind-stamped brown cloth worn and marked, neat name to front paste-down, occasional foxing throughout, one gathering sprung, good.

Manchester Univ. Press 1963 hdbk Classic edition of the six complete pageants, - Mactacio Abel, Processus Noe Cum Filiis, Prima Pastorum, Secunda Pastorum, Magnus Herodes, Coliphizacio - in Middle English, with Glossary, notes and introduction. Reprint. Name and residual tape marks to ffep, occasional neat pencil annotation, o/w VG in VG dj 187pp 0

Adam and Charles Black Edinburgh 1890 HB Vol seven only, 'Historical Essays and Researches' Red cloth slightly worn and marked, spine sunned, brown eps, generally VG. 456pp 0

Walter Scott / Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland London/Edinburgh 1887 HB In the Christian Help series, a new edition. Illustrative covers a little worn and marked, gold lettering still bright, no inscriptions, occasional grubby marks to pages and one or two pages creased, but generally clean, tight and sound, good. 290pp 0

Methuen 1979 PB Good 55pp 0

Methuen 1st edition 1983 pbk Good. 70pp 0

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983 Signed by the editor, with a dedication, to the ffep. Loosely laid in is a signed, hand-written letter from John Lorn Campbell on Isle of Canna headed note paper, speaking of relief at finishing the trilogy, and the transference of the island to the National Trust. VG in slightly edge-worn, marked, price-clipped, good DJ.

Gdansk: between.pomiedzy, 2013 Essays, poetry and prose in Poland and Britain; an anthology. VG, no inscriptions.

Methuen London 1965 HB Essays from the drama magazine Encore, from Edwin Morgan, Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson and others, on the condition of British and European theatre, with some b/w photographs of youthful 'New Wave' playwrights and productions. Covers a little marked and worn, British Council label to ffep, o/w clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. 308pp 0

Wakefield: E P Publishing, 1978 Vol 19 of a reissue of the Statistical Account of 1791 - 1799. Blue cloth, no inscriptions, slight foxing to edge of page-block, VG in slightly sunned DJ, generally VG.

Glasgow: R Thomson, 1920 Fascinating, filled with short stories, articles on how to recognize the new cars (Rolls Royce, Overland and Citroen), the stamps of the new Europe, the International Jamboree report etc. Full of period advertisements. Good, stapled newspaper, staples rusted away so pages loose. Age spotting, and rust marks by remains of staples but text clear.

Pompei: Marius Edizioni, 2004 English edition. A fully illustrated guide book, with loosely laid in map. Illustrative covers very lightly worn, no inscriptions, VG.