Robert William Munro (89 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Liberally illustrated discussion of Scottish clans from early times to the mid-1970s. Chapters briefly deal with: the early, traditional clan system; inter-clan strife; the Jacobite uprisings; the Highland Clearances and emigration period; the romanticizing of the Highland…

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisf…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw, very slightly edge-nicked. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 128 pages; Description: 128 p. : ill. (chiefly col. ) , col. Coats of arms, facsims. (some col. ) , maps (chiefly col. ) , ports. (chiefly col. ) ; 29 cm…

Condition: Muy bueno. : Este libro ilustra y analiza los clanes escoceses desde sus inicios hasta mediados de la década de 1970. Los capítulos exploran el sistema de clanes tradicional, los conflictos entre clanes, los levantamientos jacobitas, las expulsiones de las Highlands y la emigración, la idealización de las Highlands y…

1st edition. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 192 p. col. illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Clans Scotland. Tartans Scotland…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw, very slightly edge-nicked. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 128 pages; Description: 128 p. : ill. (chiefly col. ) , col. Coats of arms, facsims. (some col. ) , maps (chiefly col. ) , ports. (chiefly col. ) ; 29 cm…

1st edition. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 192 p. col. illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Clans Scotland. Tartans Scotland…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, T…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Fine in maroon cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. These letters (originally sent under the identity of only "W. G." were sent to newspapers on the east coast just before the Gold Rush. They…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octopus Books Ltd, London, 1977, hb with d/w, 1st ed, green cloth boards with black titles and decoration to spine and front cover, corners and head and foot of spine bumped and rubbed, pages clean and bright, a good tight secure binding, in a dust wrapper tha…