Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bird's Books

Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, orange cloth boards with titles on spine. 275pp. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Tear to binding at spine. Some marking, stain to edge, generally very good and clean inside. Recollections of Glasgow and its ordinary citizens in the 1870s and 1880s.

Heidelberg: Dr. Johanes Horning, 1955. Softcover. Good +. Vintage pictorial guidebook illustrated with numerous photographs, fold out map and plan of the castle. 11th revised edition. Undated circa 1955. Some wear to covers, very good inside.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. P Vinton. First Edition. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. 183pp. Dust jacket price clipped, some edge wear, repair and loss of jacket to upper spine. Inner book very good and clean, slight sunning on upper spine. ‘The idea is magnificent and disturbing, the writing superb.’

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition. Hardcover. Good +. Complete in 5 volumes The Second Edition, New and Enlarged. Published1826 - 1829. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 512 + 632 + 546 + 326 + 548 + 4pp. publisher's adverts. Vol I missing a small piece at top of spine, some foxing to front and rear. & some shelf wear. Pictorial bookplates of former owner’s personal library on front pastedowns. Inner books very good & clean, some pages still uncut. These are imagined conversation between the great and the good ranging from emperors, statesmen, poets, philosophers to other interesting individuals, coming from different ages, from classical times to the early 19th century. ***Over 2kg and may require extra overseas postage***

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, red cloth with titles and decoration on spine, front boards with blind stamped titles and decorative border. 192pp with frontispiece. Binding cracked at rear pastedown & a bit shaken. Clean inside. A novel about a young recently married man in Cairo, who loses his mind culminating in tragedy at the Great Sphinx.

Glasgow: R Robertson, 1896. Hardcover. Very good . 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt emblem on front. 97pp with tissue guarded portrait frontispiece. Upper edge gilt. A collection of prose regarding, and speeches delivered by Mather, who took a keen interest in literary and historical figures. Spine slightly sunned, generally very good.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo, original cloth boards with publisher's emblem on front and titles on spine in gilt. 352p with frontispiece. Undated circa 1907. Presumed first. Tear to top and base of spine. Previous owner's name and address written in pencil on front endpaper. A travelogue around the South Sea islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Mangaia, Polynesia, New Zealand and many others in the late 19th century.

Glasgow: The Incorporation of Wrights, 1928. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, green cloth boards with gilt motif on front. All edges red. Previous owner's name handwritten on front endpaper. Viii + 73pp + clxiv appendix. Illustrated with frontis and rear fold out facsimile seal. Includes Genealogical Roll of members. Also included are related ephemera, a letter regarding the Annual General Meeting in Glasgow 1929 and one other dated 1919, again for the Annual Meeting with the accounts and list of members admitted during the year. Slight crease to front board and a couple of corners bumped. Fifth Edition

Cambridge University Press, 1902. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Cambridge University Press, 1902. 1st Edition . Good. 8 vo, library rebound in dark red cloth with gilt titles on spine. Lxi + 1195pp. Ex reference library with few markings, handwritten number on spine & reverse of title page, bookplate & number on front pastedown, 2 stamps on front endpaper, one on rear endpaper & upper edge. Blind stamp on title page (see pic). No other obvious markings, inner book is clean & in very good condition. **Heavy & may require extra overseas postage.***

London: Longman, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, half leather binding with paper covered boards, worn, particularly at spine. Author unnamed, but tentantively identified as Paterson. 121pp. Bound together with A Letter to the Rev Andrew Thomson by Lucius (Joseph Hume), 1817, 20 pp, The Importance of Hearing theVoice of God A Sermon by J. A Haldane, 1824, 29pp and A Sermon on the death of Mr Alexander Christie of Leith by W Henry, 28pp. Scarce selction of bound pamplets. Ex reference library with some of the usual treatments.

Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York, 1889. Special Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York, 1889. Special Edition . Poor. 8 vo, original calf binding with gilt titles on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine & front board detached. Xxiii + 520pp with 18 illustrations and portrait frontispiece. Contemporary name on title page. Ghost stories, legends etc. Ex reference library with dedication & decorative bookplate on front pastedown & endpapers, handwritten reference on endpapers. No other library markings, inner book is clean & in generally good/very good condition.***Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage.***

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1849. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1849. 1st Edition . Very Good. 8vo, library rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles on spine & library name on cover. Xxiv + 487pp with occasional illustrations throughout text. Small tear on title page (see picture). Ex reference library with bookplate on front pastedown, single stamp to front endpapers & reverse of title page. No other library markings, inner book is clean & in very good condition.

Edinburgh: HMSO, Edinburgh, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. HMSO, Edinburgh, 1956. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. 2 vols, xxxii + 506pp, 618 plates, figs and plans, . Foldout map in pocket of vol 2. Ex library books with bookplate to inside front cover, handwritten no. facing contents page, library stamps on front and rear endpapers. 1 stamp on reverse of frontispiece 1 on last page. No.s on spine. Otherwise no library markings, these are good clean copies within. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****