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In Scotland Again
London: Methuen, 1948 Fourteenth edition. Red cloth, map endpapers, 15 bw plates, bibliography, index Pagination: xiii, 415. H V Morton's second tour round Scotland brings him even more intimately in touch with the country, its people and its history. He goes from the Border to John o' Groats. He walks forty miles through the Larig Ghru. He spends a stormy week fishing in the North Sea with an Aberdeen trawler. He explores the Prince Charlie country and wanders joyously the length and breadth of Scotlanbd, recounting his impressions and experiences. Highlands and Lowlands have never been interpreted with greater vitality, charm and affection. Contents: Contents: Sark Bar; Gretna Green; Ecclefechan; Dumfries; Galloway; Thrieve; Kirkcudbright; Newton Stewart; Wigtown; Mull; Kilbarchan; Glasgow; Inveraray; Oban; Mull; Tobermory; Iona; Moidart; Corrieyarrick; Fort Augustus; John o' Groats; Larig Ghru; Aviemore; Glen Tilt; Blair Atholl; Aberdeen; St Andrews; Stirling; Inchmaholme; Haddington; Dunbar; Eyemouth; Berwick; Flodden; Ettrick Forest; Abbotsford. Plates: A map of Scotland; The Border bridge over the Sark; Dumfries; Loch Trool; The tame sea fish at the Mull of Galloway; Brodick in the Isle of Arran; Tohbermory; Loch Shiel; Prince Charlie Monument in Glenfinnan; John o' Groats from the beach; Ben Laoghal; West door, St Andrews Cathedral; St Andrews Golf Course; Fishermen of Eyemouth; Newark Tower, Yarrow; Sunset over the Ettrick Water. Book: spine sl sunned, extremities lightly bumped, endpapers a little foxed, VG, Jacket: clipped, worn and torn with tape repairs to reverse of jacket, dusty, a little loss, G+ (Book ref. 3099) £11.00
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The Queen's Scotland: Glasgow, Kyle and Galloway
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 First edition. Blue cloth, map endpapers, 109 two-tone photos Pagination: 393. One of the popular Queen's/King's Scotland series, this book tells the stories and shows the pictures of all the places of interest in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Wigtownshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. With 109 two-tone photos. Contents: Places illustrated: Ailsa Craig; Alloway; Anwoth; Ardrossan; Ayr; Ballantrae; Balmaclellan; Biggar; Blantyre; Bothwell; Cardoness Castle; Carsphairn; Castle Douglas; Castle Kennedy; Colmonell; Creetown; Culzean; Dailly; Dalbeattie; Dundrennan; Dunure; Fenwick; Gatehouse of Fleet; Girvan; Glasgow; Glenluce; Gourock; Greenock; Irvine; Isle of Whithorn; Ken Bridge; Kilbarchan; Kilbirnie; Kilmaurs; Kirkandrews; Kirkbean; Kirkcowan; Kirkcudbright; Lanark; Largs; Laurieston; Leadhills; Lincluden Abbey; Loch Doon; Loudoun Castle; Maybole Castle; Minnoch Bridge; Motherwell; Mull of Galloway; Newbigging Cross; New Galloway; Newton Stewart; Paisley; Port Glasgow; Port Patrick; Prestwick; Rutherglen; Saltcoats; Stevenston; Stranraer; Strathaven; Sweetheart Abbey; Symington, Ayrshire; Threave Castle; Tinto; Wemyss Bay; Whithorn; Wigtown. Book: extremities lightly bumped, VG+, Jacket: clipped, upper edge worn with several tears, creasing and a little loss, spine sunned, a little dusty, extremities rubbed, VG- (Book ref. 3080) £14.00
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A Large Description of Galloway . M.DC.LXXXIV. With an appendix, containing original papers from the Sibbald and Macfarlane MSS
Edinburgh: W and C Tait, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall appendix pages xvi 195 bright in original full calf boards detached spine cover worn o\w good (Book ref. 14900) £49.00
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The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799 Edited By Sir John Sinclair Volume V Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire
EP Publishing Ltd., 1983. 0715810057 Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xxxvi,575. This edition of the parish by parish account of Scotland has a new Introduction, an Index, and is, for the first time, grouped according to county making this a very worthwhile reprint of an incomparable source work for those interested in Scottish history. (Book ref. 15439) £45.00
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Kirkcudbright a Royal Burgh a Book of Drawings with Letterpress
Dumfries and Galloway Museums Service, 2000. Reprint. A fine copy. Paper covers. Unpaginated but approx. 40pp. This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1934 with text on left hand pages relating to the drawing on the right hand page. (Book ref. 6413) £22.00
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The Statistical Account of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall double page map ,index,pages 397 in orignal green cloth spine cover rubbed & open/holding (Book ref. 14886) £149.00
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Scotland. Old Strathclyde. Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, Ayrshire, Buteshire, Dumfries-shire, kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtonshire. (Hutchinson's Pocket Guides No. 9.).
London: Hutchinson, 1939. 1st. Edn. Paperback. 144pp. With 14 black & white illustrations from photographs and drawings. Folding map to rear. In the original lettered cartographic card covers. Slight browning to the outer edges of the margins. The map has been slightly mis-folded but is clean and free from tears. A very good plus copy. No wrapper. (Book ref. 6251) £7.00
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Industrial Archaeology of Galloway: South-west Scotland including Wigtown, Kirkcudbright and parts of Dumfries.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. 8vo, 271pp, 32 monochrome plates, numerous text diagrams, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A very good copy in like d-j. (Book ref. RHB6780) £24.00
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The Buildings of Scotland: Dumfries and Galloway
London: Penguin, 1996 First edition. Blue leatherette, gilt, bw plates, 16 maps, glossary, index Pagination: 622. The landscape of Dumfries and Galloway, perhaps the most attractively varied in Scotland, juxtaposes coastal plain with gentle hills, bare moorland and forest. This is a border region whose buildings reflect its turbulent history. Invading Romans established forts, most famously at Birrens, and the interplay of Anglian, Norse and Irish influences at the beginning of the Christian era inspired fine carved crosses, including the Ruthwell cross with its sophisticated Northumbrian workmanship. Nowhere else in Scotland is the introduction of twelfth-century feudalism so physically marked, with a plethora of motte-and-bailey castles, often accompanied by parish churches, as well as the great abbeys of Dundrennan, Glenluce and Sweetheart, in the spare style of their Cistercian founders. Strong-walled castles provide stirring reminders of the protracted Wars of Independence: Auchencass, a lonely ruin, and Caerlaverock and Sanquhar, powerful expressions of military power, still guard the major routes from England into the heart of Scotland.<P>The fifteenth century saw the flowering of a distinctive Scottish late Gothic in the chapter house at Glenluce and at Lincluden Collegiate Church and also the proliferation of the earliest tower houses, which developed from the austere medieval Threave to the late and dizzyingly ambitious Amisfield Tower. Even the magnificent Baroque ducal palace of Drumlanrig Castle still displays military flourishes. Most eighteenth-century country houses, such as Palladian Tinwald or Neoclassical Rammerscales, look more orthodox, but battlements still appear in a medley of styles at the eccentric Raehills House. The Victorians’ self-confident Baronial mansions of Castlemilk and Lochinch, vigorously recalling their feudal forebears, are followed by the light-hearted arts-and-crafts interiors of Old Place of Mochrum, fitted up for the honeymoon of the fourth Marquess of Bute.<P>The region is studded with small burghs. Along the coast, picturesque Kirkcudbright, haunt of artists, contrasts with the workaday ferry port of Stranraer, Sanquhar and Lochmaben, Whithorn and Wigtown each have their distinctive tolbooth or town hall, and on the edge of Dumfries stands that magnificent monumenbt to Victorian progress, Crichton Royal Hospital. Farm steadings and lighthouses, village buildings and Georgian and Victorian churches, with their handsome graveyard monuments, are equally important ingredients in this comprehensive guide to a little-known but richly endowed region. Contents: Maps: Regional map; Annan; Castle Douglas; Dalbeattie; Dumfries town centre; Dumfries, Crichton Royal Hospital; Gatehouse of Fleet; Kirkcudbright; Langholm; Lockerbie; Moffat; New Abbey; Newton Stewart; Sanquhar; Stranraer; Thornhill. Book: head/tail sl bumped, Near-Fine, Jacket: unclipped, v sl edge creasing, hint of yellowing to edges of inner flaps, VG+ (Book ref. 2854) £24.00
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Evacuation in Scotland, A Record of Events and Experiments
London: SCRE/University of London Press, 1944 First edition. Blue cloth, gilt Pagination: xvi, 224. From the library of Dr John Gamble Ian Morris (1921-2008), Scottish teacher, campaigning educationalist, civil servant and writer, one of the founders of the Scottish Educational Research Association. Contents: Evacuation in Scotland: A record; The early stages of evacuation; The parents and evacuation; Billeting in large households and institutions; The use of large houses as residential schools under the government evacuation scheme in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright; A Scottish camp school; Nerston residential clinic: an experiment in child guidance; Barns House: a hostel for difficult boys evacuated from Edinburgh; The home-study scheme in Edinburgh; The Scottish evacuation film scheme. Book: extremities bumped, endpapers lightly foxed, VG, Jacket: upper edge worn with loss, browned, VG- (Book ref. 2789) £28.00
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Historical and Traditionary Tales, Sketches, Poems &c connected with the South of Scotland
Kirkcudbright: John Nicholson, [1843?] Marbled boards, manuscript paper title to spine Pagination: viii, 450. A scarce title (and this copy has a slightly different title from all the other copies I can trace on e.g. Copac, Traditionary instead of Traditional), a mixture of short pieces on historical traditions and tales mixed with poetry. Contents: Prose: Account of an apparition which infested the house of Andrew Mackie, in Ringcroft, parish of Rerwick, and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in 1695 by Alexander Telfair; Graeme, the outlaw of Galloway from Terrific Register; Account of the lordship of Galloway by Robert Riddel of Glen-Riddel; The murder hole; The twice-christened bairn; Sawney Bean and his family; The emigrants; Jean’s Wa’s by J G Barbour; The smugglers by Samuel Wilson; Janet Smith; Table of compensation for injuries (from Regiam Majestatem, or ancient Code of Scotch laws); Old Fontenoy; Journey through Galloway (from Journey through Scotland, by the author of a Journey through England, 1723); The Battle of Drumclog by Laird of Torfoot; James Renwick by Rev Robert Simpson; The Maid of Livingstone by W M’Lellan; The Providences of God by Miss L Gillespie; The Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300 from Grose’s Antiquities; Description of Caerlaverock Castle from Grose’s Antiquities; William Guthrie, minister of Irongray by Rev Edward Irving; Taking the Beuk from Cromeck’s Relics; The eleventh commandment; Cardoness Castle; A Scotch Cooper; William Graham by W M’Lellan; Rusco Castle; The Master of Logan by Allan Cunningham; Four Glenkens’ ministers from Dumfries Magazine; Rutherford’s Three Witnesses; A country kirn; Death of the Good Sir James and eighth Lord of Douglas from Tytler’s Scottish Worthies; The Martyrs of Kirkconnel; Extracts from Regiam Majestatem; Extract from Three Years in Canada. Poets include: Robert Kerr; Alexander Viscount Garlies; Samuel Wilson; W Nicholson; Robert Malcolmson; Mrs Gordon of Campbelton; W Millar; W M’Lellan; D M’Lellan; Joseph Train; William Train; James Montgomery. Book: boards rubbed to edges, neat owner signature to title page, textblock tight, crisp and clean, last leaf a little dusty, last leaf has three short closed tears where stitching has pulled through the gutter (but still very secure), contents VG boards VG-, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 2770) £53.00
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Remarks Upon Scotch Peerage Law, As Connected With Certain Points in the Late Case of the Earldom of Devon; to which are added, desultory observations upon the nature and descent of Scotch Peerages &c &c
Edinburgh: Thomas Clark, 1833 First edition. Publisher's cloth, paper label to spine Pagination: [4], xii, 205. Contents: Import of Heirs-Male in Scotland in the case of honours (Case of Kirkcudbright; Case of Annandale; Case of Murray); Import of the term heirs in certain cases (Patent of Nairn; Case of the Earldom of Airth, or Menteith; Case of the Marr succession; Lordship of Man, an ancient Scottish peerage; Barony of Torphichen; Barony of Hume of Berwick); The clause of precedence with respect to the honours in the Devon patent (English doctrine and practice as to grants of precedence in the case of honours; The Scotch doctrine and practice (Patent of Barony of Fraser; Case of the Dukedom of Buccleuch; Cases of Arran, Argyle, Buchan, Sinclair etc; Case of Oliphant; Strictures of Lord Mansfield upon the Oliphant decision in 1633 with replies; Oliphant decision, a competent one; Not so that of Lovat; Resignations of honours, and regrants carrying old precedences; Case of the Marquisate of Queensberry); General remarks); Exemption of peerages from prescription. Book: boards damp-faded, extremities bumped and a little rubbed, spine label a little browned and chipped, endpapers browned, pages clean, contents VG+ boards VG-, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 2562) £34.00
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The Queen's Scotland: Glasgow, Kyle and Galloway
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 First edition. Blue cloth, map endpapers, 109 two-tone photos Pagination: 393. One of the popular Queen's/King's Scotland series, this book tells the stories and shows the pictures of all the places of interest in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Wigtownshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. With 109 two-tone photos. Contents: Places illustrated: Ailsa Craig; Alloway; Anwoth; Ardrossan; Ayr; Ballantrae; Balmaclellan; Biggar; Blantyre; Bothwell; Cardoness Castle; Carsphairn; Castle Douglas; Castle Kennedy; Colmonell; Creetown; Culzean; Dailly; Dalbeattie; Dundrennan; Dunure; Fenwick; Gatehouse of Fleet; Girvan; Glasgow; Glenluce; Gourock; Greenock; Irvine; Isle of Whithorn; Ken Bridge; Kilbarchan; Kilbirnie; Kilmaurs; Kirkandrews; Kirkbean; Kirkcowan; Kirkcudbright; Lanark; Largs; Laurieston; Leadhills; Lincluden Abbey; Loch Doon; Loudoun Castle; Maybole Castle; Minnoch Bridge; Motherwell; Mull of Galloway; Newbigging Cross; New Galloway; Newton Stewart; Paisley; Port Glasgow; Port Patrick; Prestwick; Rutherglen; Saltcoats; Stevenston; Stranraer; Strathaven; Sweetheart Abbey; Symington, Ayrshire; Threave Castle; Tinto; Wemyss Bay; Whithorn; Wigtown. Book: spine sunned, front board a little marked, VG, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 2508) £14.00
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Index to Particular Register of Sasines for Sheriffdom of Dumfries and Stewartries of Annandale and Kirkcudbright preserved in HM General Register House Volume V 1761-1780
Edinburgh: HMSO, 1961 First edition. Printed boards with cloth tape spine as issued, folio 34x21 cm Pagination: 169. Sasines can be an extremely useful resource for family history - in my own case, judicious use of the sasines allowed me to trace back two extra generations in one branch of my family who were landowners in Fife. The sasines also gave the names of a couple of daughters whose baptisms were not included in parish registers, allowing me to trace their descendants as well.<P>Not many people in Scotland owned land or buildings historically, so the sasines only cover a small proportion of the population, but they can be a goldmine of information. Even the indexes can provide useful clues - particularly for women, where maiden and married names are given, as is traditional in Scotland - as they often includes designations, as well as family connections. For example: Margaret Clinkscales, daughter of Robert C in Lumsden, and spouse of Robert Dickson, son of William D, portioner in Coldingham. Not all index entries are so informative, but they all include a date of recording and a reference to the Volume/Folio number of the record in the National Archives of Scotland.. Book: New, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 2196) £19.00
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Studies in Scottish Antiquity presented to Stewart Cruden
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1984 First edition. Blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, bw illustrations and photos Pagination: xiii, 489. Over the years since 1946 Stewart Cruden, Scotland's Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings, has come uniquely to personify the service which is charged with protecting and preserving this part of the country's heritage, and it is fitting that so many distinguished scholars have contributed to this festschrift in his honour. Contents: Callanish; The Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall at Bearsden; Major Early Monasteries: Some Procedural Problems for Field Archaeologists; Norman Settlement in Galloway: Recent Fieldwork in the Stewartry; Medieval Wooden Bowls; Scottish Medieval Window Tracery; Documents Concerning the King's Works at Linlithgow 1302-3; Scottish Renaissance Architecture; The De Wet Paintings in the Chapel at Glamis Castle; Lauderdale at Holyroodhouse 1669-70; Towards a study of Gardening in Scotland from the 16th to the 18th centuries; James 2nd Duke of Atholl & John Cheere; Scottish Parliamentary Churches and their Manses; The Office of Works in Scotland: The Early Years; Victorian Mews in Edinburgh; The Architecture of MacGibbon & Ross: The Background to the Books; Overton: Three Generations of a West Lothian Farm; The Defences of the Firth of Forth; Thirty Years of Popular Archaeology 1945-1975; A Bibliography of Stewart Cruden’s Publications. Book: extremities a little bumped, VG, Jacket: v slight edge creasing, VG (Book ref. 1785) £23.00
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Borgue Academy, The Story of a Village School
Borgue: Adam Gray, 1989 First edition. Paperback, bw photos and other ills, list of teachers Pagination: 128. Excellent history of Borgue Academy in Kirkcudbright. This copy belonged to Kirkpatrick Dobie, Dumfriesshire local historian. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Where to begin; William Poole; 19th century education in Scotland; Joseph Copeland; Maxwell McMaster; Andrew Thomson; James Newton; John Dunlop; John Doig; Edwin Munro; John Henderson. Book: corners of covers sl bumped, label of Kirkpatrick Dobie, VG, Jacket: (Book ref. 1729) £11.00
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Discovering Galloway
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1997 Reprint. Paperback, map, many bw ills, index Pagination: xii, 284. Gallovidians and regular visitors alike will recall those fanciful labels, all of which in varied contexts have been used to describe some features of this region of Scotland.<P>The area extends from the Mull of Galloway and Loch Ryan in the west, to the Solway and the Nith at Dumfries in the east. This is a world of orderly landscapes, green fat farmland and wooded hills, mud flats and salt marshes, moorland and mountain, stone circles, crosses, ancient Christian sites, witches and warriors, smugglers and tinkler-gypsies, picturesque villages and interesting small towns.<P>This comprehensive guide and entertaining history has been extensively revised and updated by the author. It is certain to offer something new on occasion to Gallovidians and to all visitors, whether for a weekend, a week, or at intervals over a lifetime. Contents: The sea, the shore and the islands; The rivers and the lochs; The land, the hills and the forests; Beasts and birds; Hunters and farmers; Warriors and peacemakers; Castles, country houses and coo palaces; Terregles, Kirkpatrick-Irongray and Lochrutton; Troqueer, New Abbey and Kirkbean; Colvend and Southwick, Urr, Dalbeattie, Buittle and Kirkgunzeon; Kirkpatrick-Durham, Corsock, Castle Douglas, Kelton; Balmaclellan, Dalry, Carsphairn and Kells; Tongland, Rerrick, Kirkcudbright, Twynholm and Borgue; Girthon, Gatehouse of Fleet, Anwoth, Kirkmabreck and Creetown; Minnigaff, Newton Stewart, Penninghame and the Moors; Wigtown, Kirkcowan, Kirkinner and Sorbie; Whithorn, Glasserton and Mochrum; Old Luce and New Luce; Inch, Stranraer, Leswalt and Kirkcolm; Portpatrick, Stoneykirk and Kirkmaiden. Book: corners of front cover a little creased, VG, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 1725) £8.00
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Discovering Galloway
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1990 Reprint. Paperback, map, many bw ills, index Pagination: viii, 280. This book is primarily a practical guide for visitors to Galloway, whether for a weekend, a week, or at intervals over a lifetime, but it also contains a wealth of information to delight and interest Gallovidians born and bred.<P>All aspects of Galloway are covered: the sea, the shore, the islands, the rivers, the lochs, the hills, the forests, the land, the birds and beasts, the history and heritage, the towns and villages, and the people. Routes are suggested for exploring each area and finding items of interest either by car or on foot. Contents: The sea, the shore and the islands; The rivers and the lochs; The land, the hills and the forests; Beasts and birds; Hunters and farmers; Warriors and peacemakers; Castles, country houses and coo palaces; Dumfries and oot – east; Terregles, Kirkpatrick-Irongray, Lochrutton and up north; Troqueer, New Abbey and Kirkbean; Colvend and Southwick, Urr, Dalbeattie, Buittle and Kirkgunzeon; Kirkpatrick-Durham, Corsock, Castle Douglas, Kelton, Balmaghie, Crossmichael and Parton; Balmaclellan, Dalry, Carsphairn and Kells; Tongland, Rerrick, Kirkcudbright, Twynholm and Borgue; Girthon, Gatehouse of Fleet, Anwoth, Kirkmabrec and Creetown; Minnigaff, Newton Stewart, Penninghame and the Moors; Wigtown, Kirkcowan, Kirkinner and Sorbie; Whithorn, Glasserton and Mochrum; Old Luce, New Luce and Carrick; Inch, Stranraer, Leswalt and Kirkcolm; Portpatrick, Stoneykirk and Kirkmaiden. Book: covers a little bumped to extremities, ink price to half-title, VG, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 1715) £9.00
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History of Education in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
Newton Stewart: Galloway Gazette, 1951 8vo Paper Covers 1st Edn. Illus. 182 pp. Some fraying at head and tail of backstrip; covers sl. dusty. [Presentation inscription from author f.e.p.] (Book ref. 35219) £20.00
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Old Kirkcudbright
Rawdon Old Scholar's Assoc, 1975 8vo Wrappers Rpt. Illus. Maps 31 pp. V.g. [Old Galloway Papers 1] (Book ref. 33413) £6.00
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