London: Yellow Jersey Press, 1999. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by author on title page without inscription. 16mo. 180 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear. Edges of boards have two very shallow indentations, otherwise sturdy and square. Pages unmarked. More

Edinburgh: J. Ogle / Manners & Miller [et al.], 1812. Third Edition. Octavo; [iv], 291pp +1 ads. Full calf with red leather title card to spine. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, with rubbing along joints and a good bit of scuffing and smudging to surface. Hinges..... More

London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 375 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price present. Yellow boards with spine stamped in green. Dust jacket is moderately worn along spine ends and at corners. Dampstain along top and fore edge of rear flap, bleeding over to fore-edge..... More

Edinburgh: A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1765. Third Edition. Volume I only of two volume set. 500 pages. Full contemporary calf with five raised bands and red leather label to spine. Ruled and lettered in gilt. Home, a central figure of the Scottish..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956. First Edition. Signed by Ross on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney -who cares about his author friends - Ishbel Ross December, 1960." Octavo. 305 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. Stated First Edition. Signed by Ross on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney - the friend of authors, who really buys books - fond regards Ishbell Ross December 1962." Mahoney was the husband of American feminist author Caroline Bird, who, according..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 276 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Ross was a Scottish-born American journalist and author who wrote several biographies of prominent women including Ladies of the Press, a history of women in..... More

London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Large octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 640pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a number of short closed tear along margins occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, some foxing to flap folds, corners bumped, topstain quite faded, else Very..... More

London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First Edition (in second state for one leaf noted by Pottle, showing "give" on Vol I, p. 135). Quarto; Vol I xii + TOC and errata [16pp] + 516pp; Vol II 586pp [misnumbered as 588]. Three plates: Vol I frontispiece portrait..... More

Edinburgh: Polygon Books, 1985. First Edition. Signed by Kelman without inscription on title page. Octavo. 309 pages. Printed dust jacket. Grey boards stamped in gilt. Second novel from the Scottish novelist who would go on to win the Man Booker Prize for How Late It Was, How Late..... More

New-York: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1849. Large octavo (23cm.); full contemporary sheep, gilt spine in five compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine onlay, all edges marbled; iv,xv,[1],cxli,[3],425,[1],12pp.; steel engraved portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Light scuffing to leather at extremities, short hairline split at head of upper joint, some toning and foxing..... More

Glasgow: William Mackenzie, ca. 1880. First thus. Two volumes in four. Large octavos. Engraved title pages, numerous illustrations, plates, portraits, map, facsimile. Green cloth decorated in black, gilt, and red. Bright yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilfillan was one of the Spasmodic poets, and finished his life of..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 322 pages + 8 pages publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece plus 11 additional black and white illustrations. Red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Slate endpapers. Ownership signature of "Ripley Hitchcock," presumably the American editor and author, to early leaf... More