THE TRUTH ABOUT BURNS by D McNaught - 1921

Maclehose, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Good. .

Maclehose, Jackson & Co., 1921. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1921. No Edition Remarks. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.

Maclehose, Jackson & Co, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1921 Maclehose 1st edition, VG-/No DJ, no dustjacket, navy blue cloth boards- spine color darkened- gold lettering there reads fine, light pencil marks in margin- easily erasable, 3 corners inturned, notes in pencil on rear endpaper.

GB: Maclehose, 1921. Navy Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Endpapers and text edges are browned. Page edges roughcut. Internally good clean tight text throughout. Pages 51-65 small round brown marks to bottom right hand page corners.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG/No DW.

Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover.

Maclehouse, Jackson & Co 1921. Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson & Co., 1921. First Edition. Signed presentation from McNaught on the front endpaper: "I am Dear Mr. Cunningham, Yours truly D. McNaught. Benrig, Kilmaurs. 25th Janry, 1922." Books signed by McNaught are uncommon and the Cunningham Clan has a long history in Kilmaurs. Duncan McNaught [1845-1925] was a parochial school teacher at Kilmaurs in East Ayrshire from 1867 and served at the school for over fifty years. In 1885, he co-founded the "Federation of Burns Clubs", now the Robert Burns World Federation. He was the president for thirteen years, from 1910 to 1923.and was the editor of the "Burns Chronicle" from 1893 to 1925. He had access to, or owned, many Burns letters and manuscript items that provided many new insights that he published as editor in the "Burns Chronicle." "The Truth About Burns" contains an unpublished letter to James Smith from Robert Burns and an extensive bibliography of the appearances of Burns's poems and notices in contemporary periodicals.… Read More