from Hanselled Books

Moffat, Scotland: Lochar, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6" x 9.25. H/B 159 pages, condition is very good. The Beside Urban Voltaire is a compilation of his most hilarious, entertaining, outrageous and opinionated columns and articles from the Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman.

UK: John Murray, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 192 pages, condition is very good. George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which… Read more

Ted Smart, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. H/B. 814 pages, condition is Very Good. Jims' Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of… Read more

United Kingdom: Conway Maritime Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 240 pages, condition is very good. Royal Navy captain, radical politician, respected inventor,Vice Admiral of Chile, First Admiral of Brazil - Lord Cochrane (1775-1860) achieved legendary status during a lifetime that spanned the conflicts of the late Georgian period into the relative peace and… Read more

GB: Odhams Press/Ernest Benn, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. h/b 32 pages, plus paintings. condition is very good, some edge wear to the DJ. 3rd impression

UK: Ballantine, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 4" x 7.25. P/B 311 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear. Hero of the Japanese Imperial Navy, known throughout Japan as "the unsinkable captain" of World War II, Captain Tameichi Hara led his destroyers into the thick of combat in practically every major naval battle in the Pacific. ]APANESE… Read more

Readers Union/Macmillan, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 330 pages, condition is very good.

US: Trafalgar Square, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.4 x 6.6 x 2.1 inches. h/b 792 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear to the DJ. The authorized biography of this Hollywood producer, who made REBECCA and GONE WITH THE WIND, looking at his career from his swift rise to prominence to the collapse of his empire.… Read more

Readers Union, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 285 pages, condition is very good.

UK: Rel8 Media, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. 5.8 x 0.6 x 8.1 inches. A personal journey with a difference . . . A disabled baby, operations, a broken marriage and young family, money problems - you would be forgiven for thinking this would keep Jan at home in Scotland. But no, not Jan! She is nothing if… Read more

Quality Book Club, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 280 pages, condition is very good. Harold Hobson, former Drama Critic of the Sunday Times, regards his life as an Indirect Journey because he only finaily realized his greatest ambition - a Fellowship at Oxford - through his successful and distinguished career as a critic, a secondary ambition which,… Read more

Robert McEwan, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 223 pages, Signed by the author, condition is very good.

UK: Andre Deutsch, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches. Everyone remembers him as the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere.… Read more

London, UK: B+W, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 372 pages, condition is very good. My Scottish Youth is Robert Bruce Lockhart's evocative memoir of his childhood in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland. From his birth in Anstruther in 1887, to his experiences as a public schoolboy in Edinburgh at the turn of the century, Lockhart's delightful… Read more

Glasgow & Sydney: John McGready, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. h/b 320 pages, condition is very good, slightly hinged at the title page. Brown boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Memorable men of the nineteenth century III.

London. UK: Gollancz, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. h/b 244 pages, condition is very good, no DJ, Navy boards with gilt lettering to the faded spine. Gift inscriptions to the flyleaf. With a forward by Sir Cecil Wakeley.

Macmillan, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 154 pages, condition is very good. Readers of Sir Alexander Hoyo's historical and political writings will be fascinated by this account of his life.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 381 pages, condition is very good.

Kailyard Publishing, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 250 pages, condition is very good, a crease to the bottom RH corner of the front cover.

UK: Orion Publishing, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.5 x 0.8 x 9.6 inches. h/b 193 pages, condition is very good. Ron Reynolds was the Spurs goalkeeper for most of the 1950s. He died in 1999, and upon clearing out his house his family discovered a meticulously kept archive of Reynolds professional career-cupboards, shoeboxes,… Read more