Search Results: Scottish writers from Berthoff Books

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.

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 age-toned, Jenners bookshop (Edinburgh) sticker and pencil notation on rear pastedown. Pages unmarked.

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 gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners, some foxing to edges, pages mainly bright except for soil to a couple of them, in unclipped DJ with small chips and tears. Name of former owner written on ffep, notes on approximately eight pages and rfep, most of which are corrections of typos or grammar problems that should have been caught in copy-editing and proofreading.

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 with gilt lettering on spine, pale melon end papers, corners bumped but scant other wear. faint foxing to edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

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. Names of former owners and provenance of gift written on first free end paper, small dots next to story titles in the ToC, no marks in text.

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 on which his "The Dark Dialogues", published in Botteghe Oscure, Spring 1959, are typed out.

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 the Author" page.

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 pages.

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 few spots to wraps, light vertical indentation extends about 2" from top about 1/4" from fold and parallel to it. Pages bright and unmarked.