Autobiography/Biography from Hanselled Books

UK: Canongate, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 1.3 x 4.9 x 7.5 inches. Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson's captains, and in common with most girls of her time and station she was given the kind of education which prizes gentility over ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself algebra in secret,… Read more about this item

Fife, Scotland: Kirkcaldy Civic Society, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5.75 X 8.25. p/b 114 pages, condition is very good.

Breedon Books, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H/B 224 pages, condition is very good. The eventful Life Story of Joseph Johnston Lee, Scotland's Forgotten War Poet

UK: Hutchinson, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches. H/B 282 pages, condition is very good.

London, UK: Macmillan, 1890. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" x 9. H/B pages numbered in sections, Condition is very good. No DJ.1890, Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Some staining to flyleaves and small title page otherwise tight and clean. Bound and printed in Madras India.

UK: Birlinn Ltd, 2006. Soft cover. As New. 23 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm. p/b 212 pages, condition is As New. When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh's distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed… Read more about this item

UK: New Namibia Books, Namibia, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 124 pages, condition is very good. Tears over the Deserts is the story of the young Jackson Kaujeua - poet, singer, footballer, would-be priest. Jackson tells of his rural childhood herding goats and drinking omaere; of traditional Herero life and the ceremonies of circumcision and transition… Read more about this item

UK: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Some rubbing and soiling to brown cloth boards. There is a name on the flyleaf.

Newnes, 1000. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. h/b 319 pages, condition is good, pale blue boards with black lettering to the spine. Gift inscription to the flyleaf.

Jarrolds, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. h/b 252 pages, condition is very good, no DJ, yellow boards with red and black lettering to the spine and front cover.

London, UK: Putnam, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. H/B 372 pages, condition is very good, maps as endpapers. Pale blue boards. 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… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Younger, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. H/B 110 pages, condition is very good. red boards with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine.

Kinross, Scotland: Mrs. N.H. Walker, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 185 pages, condition is good, minor edge wear. Signed on the title page by the author. For countless generations Scots men and women have journeyed to the furthest corners of the earth as merchants, missionaries, travellers and explorers. The instinct for adventure and the need… Read more about this item

Kinross, Scotland: Mrs. N.H. Walker, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 185 pages, condition is good, minor edge wear. For countless generations Scots men and women have journeyed to the furthest corners of the earth as merchants, missionaries, travellers and explorers. The instinct for adventure and the need to find out what goes on beyond the distant,… Read more about this item

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. H/B 253 pages condition is very good, No DJ. an owners name and address to the flyleaf.

Aberdeen, Scotland: D. Wyllie & Son, 1896. Numbered . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 22cm x 17cm. Limited Edition of 250. Black cloth beveled boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. attractively printed in period style at the Adelphi Press in Aberdeen by Taylor & Henderson. Some soiling to boards. Textblock is tight and clean. Gilt top… Read more about this item

Birlinn, 1972. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. p/b 170 pages, condition is good An informal biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson, KBE, CB, CMG.

Edinburgh, UK: Canongate, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.5" x 9.5. H/B 183 pages, condition is very good. GEORGE THOMSON has written and illustrated several books over the years including New Better Handwriting, Traditional Scottish Recipes, Rubber Stamps and How To Make Them and Christmas Recipes. These have helped to establish him as one of… Read more about this item

G C L Bertram, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. p/b 208 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear. Signed inscription to the title page. Colin Bertram was born in 1911, schooled at Berkhamsted, entered St John's College, Cambridge, and gained Class I in Zoology. Then, after two summer Arctic Expeditions, he pursued coral reef research… Read more about this item

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.