Search Results: Authors starting with W from Byre Books

British Council 1946 An overview, tracing the development of drama in the UK from the Middle Ages to 1940, with illus. British Life and Thought series no. 14 Good 53pp 0

Oliver & Boyd, 1954 Very slight wear to red cloth, name label (of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone) to the ffep, otherwise VG, no DJ.

Gall and Inglis London HB No publish date given, prob 1890's. A sometimes didactic Victorian-era account for children concerning the search for Sir John Franklin, the Arctic Explorer. Good only. Pictorial boards are heavily rubbed and worn as is spine. Contemporary prize inscription in pen on ffep. Owner inscription upon paste-down. Dates to 1895-1896. Sporadic finger marks and other grubby blemishes throughout the book. 96pp 0

Peterborough: Fenland Archaeological Trust, 1993 East Anglian Archaeology 61. Micro-fiche to back pocket. VG, no inscriptions.

London/Glasgow/Edinburgh: William Mackenzie Undated. Illustrated. The six original volumes of Tales in two books. Half bound in dark leather worn and marked, wear to spine top and tail, edge of page block marbled, no inscriptions, some grubby marks, sound, good both vols. A heavy set which will require extra postage.

American Archives of World Art, 1966 Red cloth lightly sunned with light sunning to gray eps, no inscriptions, generally VG in marked, edge-worn, good DJ.

Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1968 In the series Sources of History. Illustrative covers worn and rubbed, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

Hutchinson & Co London 1st 1954 hdbk With 84 illustrations. Memories of Victorian and Edwardian life, and particularly theatre. Cover a little sunned and marked, name to ffep, good, no DJ 352pp 0

Broughty Ferry: Gairfish, 1993 Essays by Martyn Crucefix and Christopher Harvie, poetry from Ian Duhig, Frank Kuppner and Gael Turnbull. Illustrative covers a little worn and creased, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

University of London Press 1939 PB Short plays with large casts and simple vocabulary, suitable for pupils from S.2. Sewn booklet, no inscriptions, VG. 63pp 0

Oxbow Books, 1999 Very slight wear to illustrative covers, small name to title page, clean and sound, generally VG.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984 Reprint. Very light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

Glasgow: published by The Author, 1982 Tales of Glasgow history from the Cathedral, the Necropolis, the Crosses and the Battle of Langside. Signed by the author to the title page. Light wear to illustrative covers, foxing to edge of page-block, clean, sound, good.

Gyldendalske, 1951 A collection of songs for children on the Faroe Islands, with music. Text in Faroeses. Covers a little worn, sunned, and marked, foxing to front cover paste-on illustration, name label (of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone) to front cover verso, otherwise clean, sound, good.

Horseshoe Bristol HB Undated (1920's). Beautifully illustrated in b/w by Fred Adlington, coloured frontis. Cover marked and worn, inscription to ffep, pages yellowed, good. 64pp 0

Littlewood Press Hebden Bridge 1987 PB A collection of poetry. VG 58pp 0

Stroud: Tempus, 2007 True crime. VG in VG DJ.

Archon Books Yale 1969 HB VG in faded, edge-worn, price-clipped but generally good DJ 212pp 0

Blackie & Son London HB Undated. No. V in the Oxford Manuals of English History series. Green decorated cloth worn and marked, faint initials to top right front cover, some age mottling to prelims, occasional pencil underling and marginalia, tight and sound, good. 135pp 0

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1934 With Chinese/English text. Covers worn, sunned and chipped, the spine reinforced with archival tape but still delicate, no inscriptions, good.