SHETLAND
Written by Norman Newton.
Stock no. 1829285
Published by The Pevensey Press. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The essential guide for the discerning tourist and island devotee: everything the visitor needs to know about the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos throughout. 112 pages including index. ISBN: 0907115950. Light rubbing to base of spine. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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FOULA: ISLAND WEST OF THE SUN
Written by Sheila Gear.
Stock no. 1829283
Published by Robert Hale Limited. 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Far out to the west of Shetland lies the island of Foula - a gigantic rock rising 1373 feet out of the Atlantic, supporting a population of about forty who make a precarious living by crofting and fishing. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 222 pages including index. ISBN: 0709196733. Reprint. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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MARKO'S WEDDING
Written by Ian Serraillier. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
Stock no. 1329053
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Re-tellings of heroic folk poetry from Serbia and of old ballads and a folk tale from England and Scotland. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 111 pages. ISBN: 0233961054. Spine bumped. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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HIGHLAND ENGINES AND THEIR WORK
Written by C. Hamilton Ellis.
Stock no. 1829187
Published by Locomotive Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1930. Almost very good condition.

A short history of the locomotive practice and performance on the old Highland Railway from the time of its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century down to its final absorbtion by the London, Midland and Scottish Company under the Railways Act of 1921. Pale green cloth baords, gilt titles. B/w photos. 117 pages. Covers clean and bright, a little wear to corners & top & tail of spine. Page browning throughout and a few foxspots present. Some pencil annotation.

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LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF OUR LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS
Written by Queen Victoria; Arthur Helps; Delia Millar.
Stock no. 1829106
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition.

Published in honour of The Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. From Queen Victoria's journal, 1848 to 1861. Introduced by Delia Millar. Red buckram cloth covered boards with extensive gilt and black decorations. Bevelled boards. B/w and colour illustrations. Limited edition of 1850 numbered copies. Large format. All edges gilt. Light vertical crease to free front endpaper, tip of lower corner of contents lightly creased (likely to have been dropped at some point but boards not affected). Else a lovely copy. This is copy 1198. Contained in publisher's red cloth solander case which is lightly speckled.

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THEY WANTED ADVENTURE
Written by Kenneth Macfarlane. Illustrated by Walter Hodges.
Stock no. 1328833
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1942. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Two children set out for the usual orthodox Scottish holiday stumble upon deep matters... Cream cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 254 pages. B/w illustrations. Second impression. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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KATE CRACKERNUTS
Written by K.M. Briggs.
Stock no. 1828989
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin Books Ltd. 1st thus 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. The story of Kate 'Crackernuts' is moving and dramatic - steeped in the folklore and politics of 17th century Scotland, amid witch hunts and religious argument, inter-family disputes and the wars between Royalists and Parliamentarians. The story of the timeless struggle of personal convictions of truth against powerful forces of opposition. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 223 pages. ISBN: 0722655576. Browning and foxing to top edge of text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly browned to spine. Musty odour present.

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THE FLORA OF ANGUS (FORFAR, V.C. 90)
Written by Ruth Ingram; Henry J. Noltie.
Stock no. 1828953
Published by Dundee Museum & Art Gallery. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial card wraps. Colour frontis. 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0900344458. Spine & top rear edge lightly browned, front cover has a few minor foxspots, spine is lightly creased from reading wear. Lower front corner bumped, giving rise to lightly creased lower corner of contents. Contents clean.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PAISLEY NATURALISTS' SOCIETY VOL. II
Written by Charles A. Hall.
Stock no. 1828952
Published by Alexander Gardner. 1st 1915. Good condition.

Lists of Renfrewshire Plants, Macro-Lepidoptera, Fresh-water Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals and Other Papers. Introductory notes by the editor Rev. Charles A. Hall. Blue cloth boards, title label to spine. Map of Renfrew to front endpapers. xvi and 120 pages. Title label to spine is rubbed with loss. Boards are marked and grubby, browned to spine. Board corners bumped. Text block browned. Name & date in ink to fly-leaf. Endpapers a little grubby. A few grubby marks to cotents. A good working copy.

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THE DRAGON OF OG
Written by Rumer Godden. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 1328619
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Green endpapers with white dragon vignettes. Colour and b/w illustrations. A witty, exciting and poetic story based on an old legend of the Scottish Lowlands. ISBN: 0333317319. Minimal bumping to spine. Some foxing to top edge of textblock. Tiny crease to lower edge of front panel of wrapper.

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L.M.S.R. LOCOMOTIVES TO SCALE
Written by Ian Beattie.
Stock no. 1828738
Published by D. Bradford Barton. 1st 1981. Almost very good condition.

Yellow boards. Oblong format. B/w photos and line drawings. 61 pages plus publisher's list to rear. ISBN: 085153399X. Boards dirty and stained. Top of spine bumped. Spine & corners lightly rubbed. Top gutter edge of contents lightly creased due to bump to spine (affects margin only). A few grubby marks to contents.

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WINDSWEPT: LIFE, NATURE AND DEEP TIME IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Written by Annie Worsley.
Stock no. 1828616
Published by William Collins. 1st 2023. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The author trades a busy life in academia to take on a croft on the west coast of Scotland. Black cloth boards, white title to spine. Colour photos. 284 pages. ISBN: 9780008278373. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little worn with surface paper loss to lower front corner (very minor) and just lightly scuffed.

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