Biografi

A Scorpion for Tea or To Attempt the Impossible

Hollis, Rosemary · 1981 · Barter Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

G : in Good condition with rubbed & clipped dust jacket Devon Arthur H Stockwell First Edition 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 183pp.

The Wayside: Home of Authors

LOTHROP, MARGARET M. · 1968 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, American Book Company. 1968. Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Drawings. Paperback, Former owner's bookplate on fep, else textblock clean and tight; Sunned spine, reading creases down the spine, creased corners, soil spot on front cover. 202p. including chronologies,...

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

Southey, Robert · 1897 · Byre Books

£15.92 (€19.08 | $21.03 | ¥3,358)

Book Good No Jacket J.M. Dent and Co. London In the "Temple classics" series. Covers are a little rubbed to extremities. Top edge gilt, worn to end red silk ribbon bookmark, tissue guarded title page. 356pp inc notes. Biographical history of the Naval hero.

21 ans chez les Papous

Dupeyrat, Andre, preface by Paul Claudel · 1952 · Byre Books

£10.61 (€12.72 | $14.02 | ¥2,238)

Book Good La Colombe Paris Text in French. A missionary in Papua New Guinea from the 1930's to the 1950's. Illustrated in b/w. Covers lightly marked, pages yellowed, no inscriptions, tight and sound, good.

Jehanne

Robertson, Isabel · 1992 · Byre Books

£17.65 (€21.16 | $23.32 | ¥3,722)

Book Very Good Good Adelphi London A biography of Joan of Arc in the form of a novel. One corner bumped, no inscriptions, VG in lightly worn, good DJ.

Mark Twain A to Z - the essential reference to his life and writings

Rasmussen, R Kent · 1995 · Byre Books

£26.54 (€31.81 | $35.06 | ¥5,597)

Book Very Good Very Good Signed by Author(s) Facts on File New York Signed by the author, with a dedication, to a label pasted to the front paste-down. Slight creases to some pages, VG in VG DJ, not price-clipped. A heavy book.

The Crayon Miscellany - 3 vols, complete

Washington Irving (the author of the Sketch Book) · 1835 · Byre Books

£61.44 (€73.64 | $81.17 | ¥12,958)

Book Good 1st Edition Carey, Lea and Blanchard Philadelphia A Tour on the Prairies (1st US edition, 1st issue, 1st state, without 'No.1' to the spine title label, with 'binger' to p. 274), covers marked and worn, spine label rubbed, stains to pages throughout, chip to back fre...

John James Audubon - a selection of watercolours in the New-York Historical Society

Bell, James B · 1985 · Byre Books

£11.77 (€14.11 | $15.55 | ¥2,482)

Book Good New-York Historical Society New York In the series Medaenas Monographs on the Arts. A biographical study with a portrait frontis and 12 coloured plates, one of them a large fold-out. Light wear to covers, paste-on illustration to front cover, some spots to half title...

My Printing Experiences

Franklin, Benjamin · 1922 · Byre Books

£26.54 (€31.81 | $35.06 | ¥5,597)

Book Very Good 2nd Edition Porte Publishing Salt Lake City Includes a short biography of Franklin by Geo C Wray. Light wear to edges of spine and spine top and tail, otherwise clean, tight and sound, no inscriptions, generally VG, no DJ.

The Printer Boy or how Ben Franklin made his mark - an example for boys

Thayer, William M · 1861 · Byre Books

£26.54 (€31.81 | $35.06 | ¥5,597)

Book Good J E Tilton and Company Boston A children's biography of the young Franklin. Brown decorated cloth lightly worn, corners bumped, wear to spine top and tail, gilt all round, two gatherings loosening, brown end-papers, tissue-guarded frontis, b/w illus., no inscriptions...

Life of Sir Walter Scott

Lockhart, J G · 1893 · Byre Books

£10.61 (€12.72 | $14.02 | ¥2,238)

Book Good Adam & Charles Black London Complete, the New Popular edition. Blue cloth worn and marked, prize label to front paste-down, no other inscriptions, text arranged in two columns, some foxing, good, no DJ.

Twelve Scots Trials

Roughead, William · 1995 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good The Mercat Press Edinburgh Reprint. Criminal biographies, first published in 1913. No inscriptions or annotation, clean, tight and sound, VG.

Scottish Family Histories held in Scottish libraries

compiler Joan P S Ferguson · 1960 · Byre Books

£14.93 (€17.90 | $19.72 | ¥3,149)

Book Very Good Good The Scottish Central Library Edinburgh Attractive ownership plate to ffep with handwritten comment:'With the compiler's compliments', very occasional marginal marks, generally VG in marked and edge-worn, good DJ, not price-clipped. An alphabetical listing b...

Bruce of Banff

Fergusson, Adam W · 1934 · Byre Books

£15.88 (€19.03 | $20.98 | ¥3,349)

Book Good Andrew Elliot Edinburgh Subtitled ' Memoir of a Scots parish minister who loved the church, his books and the book of nature and who cared for the poor'. Original blue boards much faded and sunned, a little worn and marked, a long inscription - quotations - to front ...

Lady Gregory

Adams, Hazard · 1973 · Byre Books

£9.29 (€11.14 | $12.27 | ¥1,959)

Book Good Bucknell University Press Lewisburg In the Irish Writers series - a critical reassessment of the playwright and mythologist. Covers lightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, good.

A Pea in my Ear - experiences in the rice villages of West Bengal, India

Rousham, Alan · 0 · Byre Books

£9.29 (€11.14 | $12.27 | ¥1,959)

Book Very Good Country Books/Ashridge Press Bakewell 2006 PB Anecdotes of volunteer work in India 2003 - 05. VG, no inscriptions. 54pp 0

The Promised Land

Barrett, John · 0 · Byre Books

£10.24 (€12.27 | $13.53 | ¥2,160)

Book Good Good Times Commercial Printers Hamilton, NZ 1st 1977 HB A biography of journalist Colin Wilson, signed by Colin Wilson to the ffep verso. Blue cloth covers a little worn and marked, some slight age-mottling to pages but generally tight, clean and sound, good in good ...

Blanche Fury

Britton, Eric (adapts) · 0 · Byre Books

£27.06 (€32.44 | $35.75 | ¥5,707)

Book Good World Film Publications London 1949 PB Book of the film, an adapation from a screenplay of a Joseph Shearing novel with b/w stills and some short biogs ofthe people involved. Good only. Backstrip is starting away .Fr. and the rear cover is loosening. 78pp 0

The Böd of Gremista - birthplace of Arthur Anderson

Böd of Gremista Management Committee · 0 · Byre Books

£6.95 (€8.33 | $9.18 | ¥1,466)

Book Good Böd of Gremista Management Committee Lerwick PB Biography of the founder of the P & O line and a guide to the building in Shetland. Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, good. 21pp 0

Niven's Hollywood

Hutchinson, Tom · 0 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good Good Macmillan London 1984 HB B/w photographs from Hollywood in the '30s embellish this biography of David Niven. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, price-clipped good DJ. 192pp 0