9870 A BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SCOTS VERSE edited by William Robb (Gowans and Gray 1925) First edition. Includes poems by Marion Angus, John Buchan, , Neil Munro, Gilbert Rae and numerous others. 259 pages including a 23-page glossary. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Spine slightly darkened and extremities rubbed. Internally very good but for occasional brown spots. £10

9839 JUNIOR MODERN PROSE edited by Richard Wilson (JM Dent & Sons, 1927) Third impression (first published 1923) of a title in the series “The King’s Treasures of Literature”. Extracts from longer works. It seems that “Junior” refers to the stories generally conveying concrete rather than abstract ideas. Authors include Charles Kingsley, Q, John Buchan, , Frances Hodgson Burnett and Kenneth Grahame. There are 32 stories in all. 252 pages. Dark red cloth with gold lettering and a blind- stamped head emblem on the front. Frontispiece portrait of John Masefield. Slightly rubbed extremities but otherwise undamaged. There is a former owner’s name on the front paste-down and an ink drawing on the half-title. £7

9840 MODERN BIOGRAPHY edited by Lord David Cecil (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1938) First edition in this series. Extracts from biographies written by authors who were alive in the 1930s. Includes, inter alia, Lytton Strachey on Queen Victoria, Philip Guedalla on Wellington, David Cecil on John Newton, Signe Toksvig on Hans Christian Andersen and AJA Symons on David Livingstone. Published in the Nelson Classics series. 229 pages. Terracotta cloth with gold lettering. Top edge dark blue. Very slight rubbing at the extremities, otherwise in very good condition throughout. Former owner’s name on the fly- leaf. The unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed and creased in places but is complete and remains bright. £10

9861 MODERN ESSAYS FIRST SERIES 1939-1941 edited by AF Scott (Macmillan 1947) Second impression. Essays on a variety of subject matter. There are notes and essay questions at the end. 260 pages + a 2-page publisher’s catalogue. Bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering. The lettering on the spine is rather dull but otherwise the book is in excellent condition. Writers included: Eric Newton, JA Spender, John Summerson, HE Bates, Edmund Blunden, Bernard Darwin, HJ Massingham, William Plumer, EM Forster, Desmond MacCarthy, George Orwell, VS Pritchett, Virginia Woolf, Hilaire Belloc, Julian Huxley, WR Inge, John Buchan, Walter de la Mere, Robert Lynd, AD Divine, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Charles Morgan, JB Priestley, William Sansom, JD Bernal, JH Bradley, Hugh Nicol and Bertrand Russell. £6

9862 NELSON’S ANNUAL edited by Dr Richard Wilson (Thomas Nelson & Sons, undated) Not an anthology as such but nevertheless a collection of stories articles and poetry for the young adult reader. Hilaire Belloc, Quiller-Couch, John Buchan, O Henry and Charles Dickens are among the many authors included. 320 pages. Quarto (10 inches x 8 inches). Green cloth with gold lettering. Frontispiece and 26 other colour illustrations as well as numerous small drawings in the text. Patterned endpapers. The covers are lightly rubbed and scuffed but internally the book is nice and bright. £12

9863 NORTHERN NUMBERS (being representative selections from certain living Scots poets) Compiled by CM Grieve (TN Foulis 1920) CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the of the early to mid-20th century. The book collects poems by 11 contemporary poets, viz., John Buchan, Violet Jacob, Neil Munro, Will Ogilvie, TS Cairncross, CM Grieve, Joseph Lee, John Ferguson, AG Grieve, Donald A Mackenzie and Roderick Watson Kerr. Intermittently paginated (!) but around 140 pages. Bound in mid-blue paper-covered boards with a darker blue cloth spine and gold lettering. The pages are uncut. Apart from a hint of rubbing at the ends of the spine this copy is in excellent condition throughout. £18

9864 OOR MITHER TONGUE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SCOTS VERNACULAR VERSE Selected and edited by Ninian MacWhannell (Alexander Gardner, 1937). First edition. Includes poetry by Marion Angus, John Buchan (3 poems), Violet Jacob, Gilbert Rae, Robert Reid and many others. 326 pages. Bound in white cloth with black lettering; saltire on front cover. A few faint handling marks and the saltire is lightly scuffed? Otherwise very good throughout. There is an inscription by the editor on the fly- leaf. £18

9865 ROSEMARY Compiled by F de Burgh and Walter Stoneman (Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., undated). Published as a fund-raiser for the Not Forgotten Association, probably shortly after the end of World War I. Contributions from 21 leading writers of the day each preceded by a portrait photo. Includes Alfred Noyes, GK Chesterton, John Buchan, Compton Mackenzie and Arnold Bennett. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering. Outer and lower edges uncut. Slightly rubbed extremities. Internally bright with very occasional brown spots. There is a presentation inscription in pencil on the fly-leaf. £20

9866 THE SCOTS BOOK compiled by Ronald Macdonald Douglas (Alexander Maclehose, 1935). Second impression. “A miscellany of poems, folklore, prose and letters with many facts - some well-known and others less known - about Scotland and her people.” A delightful book for dipping into. There are excerpts from a wide range of Scottish writers and the compiler also contributed a considerable amount. 367 pages. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering. There are some full-page drawings and a number of drawings in the text. Apart from lightly rubbed edges the book is in very good condition. The illustrated dustwrapper has a sunned spine and is a little ragged along the top edge. £8

9867 STORIES OF ADVENTURE edited by Max Herzberg (Allen & Bacon, USA, 1937) Second edition. A collection of ‘stories of thrilling adventure’ followed by biographical sketches of the authors, comprehension questions for school use and other exercises. 415 pages. Dark blue cloth. Title on spine in dark blue on a white background. The front cover has green lettering and an illustration in green, white and dark blue. Frontispiece and 28 other illustrations. Name inside front cover. Authors included are Nevil Henshaw, Alfred F Loomis, Thomson Burtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph D Paine, Walter A Dyer, Norman Duncan, Robert S Lemmon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Boardman Hawes, Joseph Anthony, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Gilbert, Thomas Goodridge Roberts, Rafael Sabatini and John Buchan. £16

9868 TALES FROM THE OUTPOSTS: TALES OF AFRICA (Wm Blackwood 1933 First edition of volume IX in Blackwood’s Tales of the Outposts series. Stories by Lord Baden-Powell, JAG Elliot, WH Adams, John Buchan, ACG Hastings, ‘Gaid Sakit’, Perceval Gibbon, ‘Zeres’, Captain RS Rattray, ‘Lake Chad’ and L.A. 316 pages. Bound in dark blue cloth with gold lettering on a maroon label. The front cover has a water stain down the outer edge and the rear cover has a small area similarly affected. The remainder of the binding is very bright. Internally very bright with a strong binding. Lightly browned fly- leaves. The orange and black dust wrapper has a faded spine and rear panel and a little wear at the corners and spine ends. Scarce in a d/w. £22

9869 TWENTY-FOUR STORIES collected and edited by AEM Bayliss (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1933) Fourth impression, first published 1929. Extracts from longer works together with a few short stories by Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, Frank T Bullen, Anatole France, Arthur Conan Doyle, JJ Bell, Thomas Hardy, Dion Clayton Calthrop, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Mrs Gaskell, Charles Kingsley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Reade, Lew Wallace, RD Blackmore, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Lover, George Borrow, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Love Peacock, Charles Lamb and The Bible. Published in Nelson’s Teaching of English series. Each story is followed by a short list of “Comments and Exercises”. 243 pages. Blue cloth with gold lettering. Patterned endpapers. Frontispiece illustration of Mark Twain. Rubbed extremities but otherwise very good. Pencilled annotations on the contents page and the title page is rubber-stamped “specimen”. £5