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Dr John Moore, 1729 - 1802: a life in medicine, travel, and revolution

Henry L Fulton · 2015 · Byre Books

£111.88 (€134.11 | $147.81 | ¥23,603)

Book Very Good Signed by Author(s) University of Delaware Press Signed by the author (Henry), with an inscription to Margaret (Elphinstone, Scottish writer): 'with thanks for your friendship, for your visit and your wonderful writing'. The Grand Tour, the French Revolution, co...

From Durisdeer and Castleton to Strachur: Robert Anderson: a farm diary 1847 -1852

Innes Macleod and Margaret Maxwell · 2006 · Byre Books

£10.65 (€12.77 | $14.07 | ¥2,247)

Book Very Good Innes Macleod In the series Scottish Local History Texts. Farm and family life in Dumfriesshire and Argyll. CG, no inscriptions.

George Gordon, Lord Byron: a Scottish genius

Nannie Katharin Wells, foreword by Hugh McDiarmid · 1962 · Byre Books

£21.34 (€25.58 | $28.19 | ¥4,502)

Book Good Michael Slains Second impression. An essay on Byron as a Scottish poet. Stapled booklet, covers marked but otherwise clean and sound, good.

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun: his life and times

W C Mackenzie · 1935 · Byre Books

£16.03 (€19.21 | $21.18 | ¥3,382)

Book Good The Porpoise Press Tan cloth, marked and sunned, foxing to edge of page block, no inscriptions but eps a little marked, portrait frontis, tight and sound, good. Part of the DJ is loosely laid in.

The North American Sketches of R B Cunningham Graham

R B Cunningham Graham, ed. by John Walker · 1986 · Byre Books

£16.03 (€19.21 | $21.18 | ¥3,382)

Book Very Good Scottish Academic Press Written between1890 and 1932, with a critical, biographical introduction. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, generally VG.

A Motherwell Childhood: a personal memory

Norman Moir · 1985 · Byre Books

£9.41 (€11.28 | $12.43 | ¥1,985)

Book Good Motherwell District Libraries Reprint. The 1920s and '30s, illustrated with photographs. Stapled booklet, light wear to illustrative covers, small pen mark to front cover, otherwise clean and sound, good.

This Small World of Mine

Hector Livingstone Duff · 1936 · Byre Books

£17.65 (€21.16 | $23.32 | ¥3,724)

Book Good Thomas Nelson and Sons Quarter bound in grey cloth, blue boards worn and marked, address pasted to ffep, slight foxing to prelims, frontis and all five plates present, sound, good.

David Dale: a life

David J McLaren · 2015 · Byre Books

£44.71 (€53.59 | $59.07 | ¥9,432)

Book Very Good Stenlake Catrine A biography of the founder of New Lanark and his association with Robert Owen. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG. A heavy book.

John Woolman, Craftsman Prophet

Ernest E Taylor · 1939 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Good Friends Book Centre London Reprint. In the series Friends Ancient and Modern, No. 20. A brief biographical sketch of the anti-slavery campaigner. Sewn booklet, wear to spine, name to front cover, good.

To the Happy Few: selected letters of Stendhal

Intro. by Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte, trans. by Norman Cameron · 1952 · Byre Books

£18.83 (€22.57 | $24.88 | ¥3,973)

Book Good John Lehmann London Green cloth much sunned and marked, spine title faded to illegibility, neat name (poet Jack Beeching, dated 1.IX.56) to ffep, foxing to prelims, otherwise clean and sound, good.

Times of Our Lives: the essential companion for writing your own life story

Michael Oke · 2005 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good How To Books Oxford Reprint. Provides a framework for reminiscences. Light wear to illustrative covers, grubby mark to edge of page-block, no inscriptions, generally VG.

The Life of St. Werburg, by Goscelin the Monk

Goscelin, translated by N J Munday · 1974 · Byre Books

£11.77 (€14.11 | $15.55 | ¥2,483)

Book Very Good Friends of Chester Cathedral Translated from the Latin. Stapled booklet, illustrative covers a little tubbed, no inscriptions, generally VG.

Patrick Stewart: a Galloway Hero

James McCarthy · 2011 · Byre Books

£10.65 (€12.77 | $14.07 | ¥2,247)

Book Very Good G C Books Wigtown Patrick Stewart (1832 - 1865) served in India and was involved in setting up the Indo-European telegraph. Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, VG.

The Private Life of a Country House (1912 - 39)

Lesley Lawis · 1980 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Good Good David and Charles A memoir. Brown cloth lightly worn, foxing to eps, clean and sound, good in edge-worn, mended, good DJ.

Big Falling Snow: a Tewa-Hopi Indian's Life and Times and the History and Traditions of His People

Albert Yava, edited and annotated by Harold Courlander · 1978 · Byre Books

£12.94 (€15.51 | $17.10 | ¥2,730)

Book Very Good University of New Mexico Albuquerque Light wear and sunning to decorative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

The Heart of the Matter

Bakewell, Joan · 0 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good Good BBC Books London 1st edition 1996 HB The Land, sex in the classroom, forgiveness of child murder, prejudice, are some of the topics examined in this "searching and thought-provoking" book. VG in Good DJ 253pp 0

Glenda Jackson

Nathan, David · 0 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good Spellmount Tunbridge Wells 1st edition 1984 HB Part of the Film and Theatre Stars series. VG slightly bumped top and bottom of spine. 95pp 0

Jane Fonda

French, Sean · 0 · Byre Books

£7.22 (€8.65 | $9.54 | ¥1,523)

Book Very Good Good Pavilion London 1st edition 1997 HB Published for the star's 60th birthday. Lots of b & w photos VG in Good DJ. 192pp 0

Cassius Clay: a biography

Jack Olsen · 1967 · Byre Books

£8.25 (€9.89 | $10.90 | ¥1,740)

Book Good Good Pelham Books London An early biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali, illustrated in b/w. A prize label from the 'Army Apprentices College Harrogate' ' from 1968 pasted to the ffep, but otherwise clean and sound, good, in worn, creased, mended, good DJ.

Reminiscences of the 'Pen' Folk by one who knew them

David Gilmour · 1873 · Byre Books

£21.18 (€25.39 | $27.98 | ¥4,468)

Book Good Inscribed by Author(s) Edmonston & Douglas/J & J Cook Edinburgh/Paisley Second edition. A personal memoir of members of Paisley Baptist Church in the early years of the 19th century. Inscribed to the title page 'Sir Peter Coats Bart with the kind regards of the Autho...