SCOTLAND from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Edinburgh, Scotland: HMSO, 1959. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 31pp text.

Cincinnati, OH: Jennings & Graham, 1913. HC. good, original green cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 108pp.

Aberdeen University Press, 1988. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0080363989 248pp.

Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, 1890. HC. good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 261pp.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1971. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0094515506 450pp.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1985. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0906391644 Sheds light on the origins and development of organized labour in Scotland over the past two centuries. 271pp.

Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910. HC. very good, full vellum, teg (hardcover) EX-LIB minimal marks. ill. by Henry W. Kerr. Contents include: Scottish Religious Feelings and Observations; On Old Scottish Conviviality; On the Old Scottish Domestic Servant; Scottish Judges; On Humour Proceeding from Scottish Expressions, Including Scottish Proverbs; On Scottish Stories of Wit and Humour. This edition limited… Read more about this item

London: Pluto Press, 2003. PB. fine, wraps (softcover) review press release laid in. ISBN 0745320538 A groundbreaking reassessment of Scottish politics and society in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. 378pp.

Oxford, UK: Berg, 1997. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1859739857 This book is an ethnographic study of the cultural identity and language in a community the author calls Carnan. Situated on the Isle of Skye, an Inner Hebridean island lying off the north-west coast of Scotland, Carnan was widely regarded as a symbollically important 'test-case' of the… Read more about this item

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1927. HC. good, decorated blue cloth (hardcover). ill. by Gordon Home. This volume provides descriptive material to accompany the series of charming pencil drawings in which Major Gordon Home has presented twenty-four of the most characteristic scenes of the Scottish Borderland, and attempts to convey to the mind, as the artist's drawings… Read more about this item

Scotland: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1987. HC. very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0903065592 Scotland the What? now established as one of Scotland's top comedy shows, is superbly funny, brilliantly scripted with a penetrating insight into the foibles of human nature. 272pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). On the night of December 28, 1879, winds of hurrican force smashed over the River Tay in Scotland. The magnificent new Tay Bridge, stretching from Dundee across the entire estuary, was ripped from its foundations and tossed into the black waters below. 242pp.

New York: Crescent Books, 1976. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0517205491 Distinguished Scottish author, Allan Campbell McLean, communicates a very personal journey through his homeland, the Highlands and Islands--a land of many contrasts and paradoxes, of landscapes of incomparable beauty, a hard life for the poor, a good life for the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. HC. good+, rebacked with original spine (hardcover), new endpapers. B&W plates, colored map. Exceptionally clean and tight copy. Much information on all aspects of the Town and Parish including details of the coal fields. 592pp.