White Stone Country: Growing Up in Buchan
by Ogston, David D
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0902859889
- ISBN 13
- 9780902859883
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: The Ramsay Head Press, 1986. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of gray boards, pages 61-64 (one sheet of paper) loose, NOT torn out, but a mistake in the binding. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this small hard-cover book. The author's memories of life in rural Aberdeenshire when he was a boy in the 1950s, written in the ''Doric'' dialect of NE Scotland. 83pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012754
- Title
- White Stone Country: Growing Up in Buchan
- Author
- Ogston, David D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0902859889
- ISBN 13
- 9780902859883
- Publisher
- The Ramsay Head Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Scots-Dialect, Doric, Aberdeenshire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Scotland;
Terms of Sale
JimsOldBooks
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
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Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
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- 12mo
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- Dustwrapper
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