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Objects of Pity; or, Self and Company. By...
Imprinted at Amsterdam [but actually Sydney, Australia, 1892]. First edition. Rare. Response to R. L. Stevenson's pamphlet "An... Read More
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Although printed in 1785, the introductory matter was destroyed by fire, and Ritson abandoned the completion of it. The sheets eventually fell into the hands of Triphook, who issued it thus, with a new title page, preface, and, according to him a portrait by "Mrs. Park of Hampstead" - which... Read More
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La Porte de Malétroit.
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More
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Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Paton, Noel & Walter. Later edition (First was 1849). Read More
Price: $150
First Edition, In Full Calf Binding
The Little Minister.
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition in book form, with half-titles and 16 pages of publishers' ads, on the first page of which is "5G.9.91" First Edition, In Full Calf Binding. Barrie's sentimental tale of the young Scottish preacher who marries, loses, and regains his gypsy bride, this... Read More
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Scoticisms, arranged in Alphabetical Order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing.
Edinburgh: for William Creech & T. Cadell, London, 1787. First edition. An attractive copy of this interesting work: “The book is well wrote” (p.104) and was discussed by Beattie with Samuel Johnson (p.105 “The Scots have been accused of misapplying the active verb, To want … I mentioned this to... Read More
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Slain by the Doones and other Stories.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895. First American edition. Read More
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres.
Brooklyn, New York: Printed by Thomas Kirk, Sands-street, 1807. Fourth American Edition from the ninth and last London edition. Balir was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Here offered in edition by the first Brooklyn Printer of his lectures while he was the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Read More
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Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville Hanry Dundas.
County Fife, Scotland: November 2, 1795. [With:] HORSBRUGH, Thomas, Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos. Horsbrugh”), to Claud I Boswell. Cupar, Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to (10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold). 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. Torrential... Read More
Price: $450
An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports... Read More
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Dedicated to Sir Walter Scott
Description of the Abbeys of Melrose, and Old Melrose, with Their Traditions.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, by J. Orphoot, 1822. The Second Edition, Improved. Dedicated to Sir Walter Scott. Read More
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Some Eighteenth Century Byways and other essays.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1908. First edition, variant binding, without ads. Interesting collection of Buchan’s early literary journalism, with emphasis on Scottish themes, including Prince Charles Edward and the Jacobite cause. Read More
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The Complete Works of.
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, 1886. Edition de Luxe. One of 1000 numbered sets. Read More
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The Works ... Including His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: With an Essay on His...
London: printed for the editor by Richards and Co, 1821. Read More
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The Works of Robert Burns. edited by The Ettrick Shepard, and William Motherwell.
London and Edinburgh: A. Fukkarton and Co, nd. Read More
Price: $650
The Works of … with an Account of His Life … as Edited by James Currie, M.D.
London: Printed for Willaim Allason, No. 31, New Bond Street and J. Maynard, Fanton Street, Haymarket, 1819. “A New Edition”. An attractive set of Burns works in an American acid-stained binding. Read More
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The Works of...with an Account of His Life.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Sixth Edition. Read More
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The Cotter's Saturday Night.
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More
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![[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments]. Alexander Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/305557.jpg?v=1534807588)
[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments].
[Edinburgh, etc: 1815-1823]. Alexander Campbell (1764–1824), composer and writer, published several collections of Scottish songs, and while a teacher in Edinburgh “gave lessons in harpsichord and singing. Among his pupils were Walter Scott and his brothers, but the lads had no taste for the subject and the master had no... Read More
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![Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast. Thomas Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/217156.jpg?v=1534804940)
Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster"
Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast.
[London], Middle Scotland Yard Whitehall: 19 March , n.y.[after 1822]. Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster" A witty acceptance letter to the mother of Thomas Hughes (author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS), from the Scottish poet Campbell (1777-1844), author of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. Accepting the invitation to breakfast... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed ("T. Campbell").
Sydenham: 19 February 1816. Campbell (1777-1844) writes to an unnamed recipient, declining to review a volume of poetry but offering his services in making an introduction and mentioning the author and editor William Gifford and the publisher John Murray. The letter reads, in part: "Respecting the volume of Poems …... Read More
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Scraps from a Pedlar’s Wallet. Being Original Sonnets, Songs, Etc.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1883. First edition. Read More
Price: $100
Cosietattle and Other Poems.
Liverpool: Printed and Published by the Author, 1888. First edition. Read More
Price: $125