Scottish Writers from Berthoff Books

Faber and Faber Ltd, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 170 pages. 16 short stories by the Scottish poet. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black lettering on spine, faint foxing to edges and end papers, bottom corners bumped, minimal other wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped, worn along edges, water stains to back panel, pale foxing to interior.… Read more about this item

Mainstream Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, with list for further reading. Illustrated with b&w photos (cuts and plates, many portraits) and color ones on 12 double-sided plates. History is interspersed with accounts of travelling through the Highlands. The author formerly headed the Scottish Crofters Union. Super 8vo (8" x 11"), gray buckram… Read more about this item

Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages. Reprint edition of mystery novel by Elizabeth Mackintosh, first published 1953, under her pen name Josephine Tey. Reading crease, rubbing along spine, light shelf wear, very faint foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked except for "53" (for the year of first publicatin) handwritten on the final, "About… Read more about this item

The Mariscat Press, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 16 pages. Translations of twelve raucous love and drinking poems by the Latin poet Catullus into modern Scots English vernacular. First-ever title from The Mariscat Press, Glasgow. Edition limited to 200 copies. Stapled in pale butter-yellow card wraps a bit sunned along fold, light wear and a… Read more about this item

The Hogarth Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 158 pages, with index of first lines, glossary of some Scots English words. Two hundred nursery rhymes, collected and edited by the Montgomeries, illustrated by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. 5-1/4" x 8", blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, scant wear to boards, foxing to end papers, edges… Read more about this item

The Ecco Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 112 pages. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, a bit of very faint foxing to fore-edge. Date and price in pencil on ffep, two small pencil marks in the first poem, other pages bright and unmarked. Laid in are a clipping of a review of Graham's collected letters and three sheets… Read more about this item

Walker and Company, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First American edition (UK edition published 1984). 306 pages, with index, family tree to help keep the characters straight, b&w photos on four double-sided plates. Rivetting account of the life of a well-to-do family in northern Russia during the upheavals of the early 20th century. 8vo, tan buckram with… Read more about this item

Praeger Publishers, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages, with index, chronology, select bibliography. 156 illustrations - b&w and color reproductions of Blake's artwork. World of Art series. Trade paperback, wraps worn at corners, spine creased, foxing to top edge, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 75… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 64 pages. These poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's wife in March 1981. 5" x 7-3/8", little shelf wear, sticker remnant on back wrap, faint foxing to front and edges, binding tight, pages unmarked.