Scottish Interest from Northern Lights Rare Books

London: Headline, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Published respectively in 1997, 2002 & 2003, each volume is a first printing and each book has been signed (two inscribed) by Quintin Jardine. In at least VG condition in unclipped dustjackets but all 3 books have significant tanning to the text-blocks.

London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2023. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. The author's first novel - comical and grim in equal measure and recently awarded the William McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Fiction Title. I can't remember a better debut in the genre, myself, since Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses. Already into its second printing.… Read more about this item

London: Two Roads, 2023. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Signed by Billy Connolly to an additional title page bound in by the publishers. As New in dustjacket.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and inscription. Signed in both names (MC Beaton and Marion Chesney) Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition, can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: Obtained in person by the previous owner at the BBC in 1995.… Read more about this item

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature. Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition, can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes and ink name (Muriel Spark) to verso. Provenance: From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and Knots and Crosses doodle. Measures approx 6" x 4", Fine condition, can be trimmed down for mounting in a book, e.g. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: Obtained in person by the previous owner at a book-signing event at Waterstones, Piccadilly on 10.04.2001. From… Read more about this item

No Binding. Fine. A plain white card bearing the author's hand-written signature and date. Measures approx 4" x 4", Fine condition. Pencil notes to verso. Provenance: From the collection of the indefatigable autograph hunter, Clive Bullimore.

London: Abacus, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. Softcover format, a UK uncorrected bound proof. Printed blue wrappers, text-block toned, wrappers rubbed along edges. The lower wrapper is creased at lower corner and there is small area of glue residue and damage where a sticker has been partially removed. SIGNED at the title page by the… Read more about this item

Orion, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Printing. Collects the three Inspector Rebus novels Let it Bleed, Black and Blue, and The Hanging Garden in one volume. A Near Fine copy - pushing to both ends of the backstrip. The binding is firm and tight but the text-block has toned with age. The dustjacket… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. Very lightly toned block but otherwise a Fine copy in unclipped dustjacket. SIGNED (for the seller in person) at the title-page by the author.

Argyll Publishing, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Printing. The Artist in his world presents a decade's work by Ian McCulloch in the medium of print. And in an unusual collaboration across artisitic boundaries Alasdair Gray has produced 8 poems written from August 2-5, 1998 on eight series of prints by the artist. A wonderful… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy in gilt-decorated covers in the Alasdair Gray designed dustjacket which bears the publisher's price-clip with new price-label at the front flap. In Fine condition, the dustjacket has some minor creasing. SIGNED by the author (for the seller in person) at the half-title.

New York: Braziller, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First US Printing. Tanned at the edges which are also lightly foxed but a VG, tight, square copy in Fine unclipped dustjacket.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Rubbing to top corner of the dustjacket at the front board, otherwise about Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the author (for the seller in person) at the half-title.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Lightly-tanned block but a Fine copy in wrappers. SIGNED (for the seller in person) by the author at the title page.

London: Little Brown, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edges and text-block lightly tanned but a nice, square, clean & tight copy. Shelf-wear to the unclipped dustjacket including a sellotape-repaired tear to the rear panel top edge, small nick at top edge front and creasing to spine tips. SIGNED by the author at the title… Read more about this item

London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. First thus, softcover edition Creased across the lower wrapper (production fault?) but otherwise Near Fine in wrappers, probably an unread copy. Inscribed "All the best" and Signed at the title page by the author.

Jonathan Cape, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. An uncorrected proof copy of the author's second book. Pink printed wrappers, pp. 221. Corners a bit battered, a couple of minor marks to the upper wrapper. Otherwise VG and signed by the author at the title page.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The author's celebrated, first - and indeed only - novel which despite attracting acclaim from the critics and winning several prizes, failed to find much of an audience at the time of its release. Re-issued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2021, the book is now… Read more about this item

London: Vintage, 1996. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Previously published a year earlier by Cape. First thus, Countdown of 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 at the colophon. Showing signs of use, wrappers creased and rubbed, the block has tanned but otherwise clean, without owner names etc. Signed by the author at the… Read more about this item