Pipers and Pipe Music in a Highland Regiment : a record of Piping in the 1st Seaforth Highlanders, originally the Earl of Seaforth's or 78th (Highland) Regiment, afterwards the 72nd Highlanders, and latterly the 72nd or Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
Language: English
Published by The Ross-shire Printing and Publishing Co., Dingwall, 1924
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Creaking Shelves Books, Spean Bridge, United KingdomCreaking Shelves Books
AbeBooks seller since October 5, 1998
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 125.00
Quantity: 1 available
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63p illustrated with photos, portraits coloured prints of uniforms etc. Personalised copy in original d/w. The book is clean in original yellow boards with titling in red on the front board. Endpapers toned. Personalised copy with the owners signature neatly on the front board and fep.; some annotations.Cutting tipped in on the half tiotle reporting the authors death whilst climbing. A pencil cartoon of "Cattle replacing sheep in Scotland" affixed to rear pastedown. The toned and worn d/w has some handwritten Gaelic notes and includes the Toast of the Seaforths in Gaelic on the rear of the d/'w. D/w npw protected. Uncommon. See Scans.
Seller Inventory # 013422
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Pipers and Pipe Music in a Highland Regiment : a record of Piping in the 1st Seaforth Highlanders, originally the Earl of Seaforth's or 78th (Highland) Regiment, afterwards the 72nd Highlanders, and latterly the 72nd or Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
- Author
- Major I.H. Mackay Scobie, F.S.A. Scot., the Seaforth Hishlanders,
- Publisher
- The Ross-shire Printing and Publishing Co., Dingwall
- Publication year
- 1924
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Bagpipes and Piping, Military, Scottish Topography & Local History
Creaking Shelves Books
Spean Bridge, United Kingdom
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| Item | 14 to 60 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
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"Creaking Shelves Books" has been selling (and buying) books on line since 1999. Based now in Spean Bridge, ten miles from in Fort William beneath Ben Nevis. I have a varied stock with a particular emphasis in Scottish History and topography, mountaineering, geology, natural history and ephemera. Unusual items and small rarities are a speciality!
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