Drummond Gauld (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Duodecimo. Blue cloth. Lightest minor rubs to spine, hinges, edges. One small mark to front board (right-center). Undated (1930). (xii)458pp. "48 Illustrations from photographs by the Author." Pastedowns/endpapers have borderland maps in blue ink. Front pastedown at bottom right has small blue sticker with gold lettering: "W. & J. Kennedy, Hawick." Neatly penned brief cursive gift inscription on upper half-title page, dated "Jan. 25, 1939." Blue top-edge text block. Pages clean, bright white, unmarred.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A scarce title, first cheap edition, according to the dust jacket, but there doesn't appear to be another edition. Blue cloth with small tears to head and tail of spine but otherwise sound and clean. Dust jacket with some repaired tears and in a protective sleeve but complete.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-184, original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collection of Scots folk tales and legends, many first published in the WEEKLY SCOTSMAN. Two small stains on rear cover, a tight, otherwise clean, very good copy. (#173718).

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Not dated but perhaps about 1930. Blue cloth, gilt. Clean tight text in sound covers which are a little worn. Spine more worn but sound. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles; rough cut pages; binding remains firm; content clean & clear; ffep torn out.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's ribbed red coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.The book contains what would appear to be a couple of bookseller catalogue entries pasted down onto the front pastedown.This copy lacks it's front endpaper.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.There is some light spotting to the text block edges.With Ink blotch mark to pages 300 and 301.A Fascinating insight into life in the Trenches by Gauld between 1916-1918 in France during WW1 describing battle at Arras and Ypres.No other copies appear to online at the time of listing.Very Scarce due to the low print run by Stockwell.There are some 50 Chapters in total,8vo 305pp First Edition [1922].

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition, stated First Impression. First edition, stated first impression. Hard cover, 8vo., 184pp. In publisher's tan cloth , the boards with black lettering to front and spine. **CONDITION: Very Good. Lacking d/j. Owner's stamp to bottom of text-block, visible when book closed. Covers a bit dust-soiled, with minimal wear to tips and foot of spine. Hinges in order. Some light foxing to first and last few pages, and an area of tanning to a section of the text block edges.**AUTHOR H. Drummond Gauld, was a soldier in the King's Own Borderers Battalion 8 in World War I, (Imperial War Museum), and wrote additional works about the war, including "The Truth from the Trenches." The first chapter of this book discusses the Author's personal experience of precognition, with stories about his military service in Verdun: "The charge of being a spiritualist has not yet been launched against me, but I anticipate it and refute it now. I do not even claim to to the possession of second-sight, being merely a dweller in the plains." (p. 10) Beyond follows a collection of Scottish ghost stories was collected during travels around the Scotland, with settings such as Castle Douglas and Spedlin in Dumfries and Galloway, several Edinburgh and Midlothian locations, and the Aberdeenshire area. Chapters include: "Strange Incidents of the Great War", "A Romance of Inchdrewer Castle", "The Lost Heir of Castle Finlater", "The Miller of Spedlin Tower", "The Secret Room of Bruntsfield House", "Traditions of Roslin Castle", "The Ghost of Lennox Tower", and "A Legend of Coull". Spooky stuff; stories that could be told around an open fire in a castle great room, with a Scottish gale howling outside. (AJ). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Faint soiling to cloth, otherwise tight copy. 184pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Light rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages and yellowing from age. P/o name and date written inside along with '119' written on the corner of the ffep. Between few pages the pages are seperated exposing the webbing a little bit. There is some rubbing to the corners, and very slight bumping to the bottom corners. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 184pp. Green cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded front for edge and spine, lightly rubbed corners with cloth fraying; rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers and first/last pages foxing, pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in blue cloth boards, gilt titles, brave Borderland key map on inside covers, some marking on the covers, some shelf wear and marking to boards, previous owner's name on title page, otherwise in Very Good condition. No dustwrapper. First edition, pp457, b&w illustrations, hand cut pages. The whole Border area, from North Sea to Solway, and on both sides of the Border, is presented by one who has traversed it on foot, year after year, and knows its history and its legends as well as its beauty and glamour.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1935 first edition. Binding and text both in very good+, tight, clean condition, with no inscriptions. With 48 illustrations by the author. End-paper maps, 457 pages. See photos of this copy attached. (BMGAS).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, pp, xii, 457, many illustrations, uncut, blue coloured top edges, map endpapers, gilt titled blue buckram, unclipped pictorial dust jacket which is worn and torn at the top of the back strip.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 194. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1929 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 194.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ghost Tales and Legends by H. Drummond Gauld (First US Edition) A firm copy with minor wear to edges and corners. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Foxing to text block edges, prelims, last few pages, and sporadically to page margins. Owner's name to front free endpaper. A pictorial jacket with loss to edges of upper and lower spine and flap-folds. Tanning to spine; soiling to cover. In clear protective cover. Title page dated 1930. Brown cloth with black lettering. 184 pp.Discussion and tales regarding: psychic mysteries, haunted Scottish houses, tales and legends of old, historic ghosts of Midlothian, and more. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ghost Tales and Legends by H. Drummond Gauld (First Edition) A firm copy with slight warp to front panel. Mild wear to spine edges and corners. Offset tanning to endpapers. No jacket present. Price clipped to mid spine. Paperloss to flap-folds. Moderate wear to edges. Soiling to cover. In clear protective cover. First impression June 1929, stated. Tan cloth with black lettering; 184 pp. Discussion and tales regarding: psychic mysteries, haunted Scottish houses, tales and legends of old, historic ghosts of Midlothian, and more. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. A rare book in jacket; a collection of tales and stories dealing in a popular way with haunted Scottish houses, historic ghosts of Midlothian, and similar subjects, including werewolf interest. A little minor foxing; cloth very good; dust-jacket with some chipping and loss to corners and head of spine, but otherwise very good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xii, (9-) 457pp, with 48 illustrations from photographs by the author, and with map endpapers. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. Top edge blue, faint foxing to closed fore-edge. 19.5x13cms, in the original binding of blue cloth, firm and clean, spine titled gilt, with slight puckering to spine ends. In the protected price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. This is creased, with frayed edges and several closed tears, a one-inch chip to the upper corner of the front panel, and two large chips to the back panel. 'The whole Border area, from North Sea to Solway, and on both sides of the Border, is presented by one who has traversed it on foot, year after year, and knows its history and its legends as well as its beauty and glamour.' An attractive copy of a scarce title. (More photographs of this book can be seen on my website).

First edition. Octavo, pp., [viii], 305, [1]. Publisher's original pebble-grain crimson cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper board. Library deaccession label to end. Soiling to cloth, spine cracked and sun-faded, top edge dusty. Light foxing to preliminaries, otherwise neat. A used but serviceable copy. A very rare account of the author's experience of the Great War between 1916-18. Gauld's unit, 'the Berwickshers' is most likely the 6th Service Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Gauld begins his account with the Battle of Somme, and goes on to describe his experience at Ypres and Arras. Gauld's account was later republished in 1930 as Scotland Yet!, which is similarly rare. Date from British Library. We locate five copies only in UK libraries: BL, Bodleian, Cambridge UL, NLS and NLW.