Alex M Munro (9 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled booklet, illustrated wraps, in Very Good condition, pp56, b&w drawings and illustrated endpapers. Twenty One Stories of Auld Aberdeen.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. P/B 56 pages, condition is verygood.

Second edition. Small folio. 28 full-page illustrations from lithographs, with accompanying descriptive text. Top edge gilt. Bevelled boards, green cloth with gilt lettering. Covers worn and binding shaken. Some leaves slightly marked. No inscriptions. Overall in 'Good' but not 'Very Good' condition. [an interesting collection of illustrations, with historical descriptions, of notable Aberdeen buildings, several of which no longer exist]. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Original grey cloth with gilt titling, bevelled edges, 28 full page sketches by G Gordon Burr with descriptive and historical notes, some slight foxng and spotting to page edges. G Gordon Burr (illustrator).

hardback. Condition: Very Good. A Series of Twenty-eight Sketches of Old Buildings by G.Gordon Burr. With descriptive and historical notes by Alex M.Munro. 4to. 1st trade ed. Aberdeen (D. Wyllie) 1886. Cloth over heavy bevelled boards. Top edge gilt., others uncut. Little spine wear and edges frayed. Name penned on title page. Overall, still a very nice copy.…

hardcover. Condition: very good. With descriptive and historical notes by Munro. Thin 4to, original dark blue beveled cloth lettered in gilt (spine quite chipped, but neatly repaired; inner hinge repaired), uncut edges, t.e.g. Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1886. First edition. Interior fine, overall very good.…

1st Edition, 4to (25.5cm), 16pp. Brown cloth, plain yellow enpapers. Bookplate with coloured coat of arms of Thomas Irvine, Glenhuntly, with an ink inscription below: 'Copy of Coat of Arms ogranted to Thomas Irvine, Glen Huntly, Liverpool by the Lyon King of Arms, Register House, Edinburgh, 21st December 1899'. Gift inscription (in the same same hand) to free endpaper: 'To Edith Mary Irvine, from her father Tho[mas] Irvine'. Loosely inserted is a copy of a photograph of the owner with a brief biography. Excellent condition. a few small marks to cloth. No foxing. Curious browning to fly-leaf with imaging of inscriptions and bookplate. Otherwise very clean throughout. The Irvine family tree on the last leaf has an ink correction, presumably in the owner's hand. A fine copy of a rare Scottish family history with interesting provenance. Thomas Irvine J.P. (1818-1907) was head of the Liverpool stockbrokers firm in Liverpool, T. and T.G. Irvine in India Buildings and was a Justice of the Peace. He was the first resident of Glen Huntly house (also called Glen Huntley). His daughter Edith was born in 1872. The only copy of this work I can trace is held by the National Library of Scotland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. 4to. Pp vi, 55. 28 plates. Original cloth. Beveled edges. Considerable wear to spine ends& corners. Signed by author and illustrator. Burr, G. Gordon (illustrator).