Hugh Marwick (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight. No markings. Jacket chipped, worn at spine and corners; price-clipped; in mylar jacket cover. Green cloth boards w/gilt stampings. // One of the County Books series published by Robert Hale in the 1950s. With 49 photographs and a fold-out map. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8 pp, 287 pages, black and white plates, folded map at rear, book in very good condition (edges of book spotted, top edge also dust marked, top of spine bumped and faded, pages and plates in fine, clean condition) with fair dust-wrapper (price clipped, extensive repaired tears on front panel, edges creased and chipped with some loss of surface paper).…

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Newspaper clipping to pastedown and endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hbk 1st edition 287pp illustr photos and fold-out map, lacks dj, green cloth boards with gilt titles spine sun-faded with light edgewear and a patch of light discoloration at the front (now in custom acetate jacket) light age-toning to pages otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Pages are clean, unmarked, and not bent. Dust jacket has some chipping about the edges but is otherwise clean. Previous owners bookplate on the front endpaper.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. xii, 136pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Slightly sun-faded, Light wear to covers, corners just starting to curl. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Published In 1968 : 5th. Impression : HM Stationery Office : Quite A Rare Edition : Light Face Rubbing & Wear : Very Small Tear To The Base Of The Front Spine : Otherwise Fine : Tiny Tics To The Index, But No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text , Illustrations & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Collectors Book .…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 135pp, illustr maps, and unread copy, excellent clean tight unmarked in fine, sleeve-protected dj as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 8vo. Pp ix, 135. Original card wraps.

Condition: Gut. 285 Seiten, bebildert. Buch gut erhalten, SU leicht berieben, lagerspurig und mit Einrissen, tlw. mit Klebeband versehen. Seitenwerk nachgedunkelt, Faltkarte stärker knickspurig. Der Versand ins Ausland ist gegen Zahlung der Portokosten möglich. Bitte nehmen Sie Kontakt mit uns auf. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Hardback. Some foxing to pages. Some wear and tear to dust jacket.

The official guide, produced by the Orkney historian noted for his work on the Norn. Softcovers, 38pp with folding map to rear. VG.

First Edition. Country Books Series, with maps and illustrations Hardback - green boards unevenly faded at spine ends, dustjacket flaps laid in loosely. VG.

First edition. viii + 287pp; folding map; 49 photographs. Original green cloth, gilt. No inscriptions. VG in unclipped, but slightly worn and slightly torn (with small areas of loss) dustwrapper which is now protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original plain blue card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Includes: The Vinland Map, An Orkney Scholar: Hugh Marwick Contains portrait frontispiece, 97 pp with one double-page map and 1 monochrome archive photograph. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ICELAND (Ísland, Icelandic).…

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo in red illustrated wraps over card, 64pp. A collection of academic historical articles on topics of Orkney history, religion, genealogy and naval topics. Includes facsimiles of the two earliest known (14th century) letters written in Norse, from Orkney. Topics include: "George Eunson - Orkney's 18th Century Firebrand," "The Case of the Rev. Jas. Tyrie," "The Baikies of Tankerness," "Two Orkney Letters of A.D.1329," and "Scapa Flow in 1812. " CONDITION: Near Fine. Spine sunned, with mild crimping to edges of wraps. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 4to. Pp x, 95. 2 maps. Original wraps with plastic overlay.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 8vo, reprint, pp,xi,135, pictorial card covers.

First edition. 40pp; errata slip; folding map at rear with Key to Monuments. Original printed paper covers faded and rather worn. Contents VG. No inscriptions. Scarce.

Her Majestys Stationery Office/Edinburgh 1952, 62 S., Abb., Fotos, Faltplan,sauberes OKart. 3303504 Sprache: Deutsch.

First edition. lii + 232pp. Original cloth, gilt. Bottom edge uncut. Neat handwritten ownership inscription (name only) to front free endpaper. Some foxing to free endpapers, otherwise a VG example of a very scarce and sought-after book in an original dustwrapper. The rare dustwrapper, which is unclipped and in 'Fine' condition, is now protected in a clear, removable plastic sleeve. [a detailed account of the characteristics, history, documentary evidence and oral tradition of the Norn dialect spoken in the various Orkney parishes. The topics covered are : Historical Sketch ; Grammatical Notes ; Words & Idioms ; Games, Proverbs, Riddles, etc. ; Phonology ; Glossary (pp1-216) ; 4 appendices ; Errata et Addenda].…

Condition: Very Good. Kirkwall, W. R. Macintosh, 1952. 8vo. vi,+ (2),+ 266,+ (2) pp. Publ. cloth with somewhat torn dustwrapper. From the library of Dag Strömbäck, with his bookplate. Printed at ?The Orcadian? Office Victoria Street Kirkwell. Hardcover / Hardback.

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Full Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 19.68 x 24.13 cms} A Unique Premium Leather-Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. WE HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN COLOR OF LEATHER RED, GREEN, BLUE, MAGENTA, TAN, PURPLE DEEP BROWN, BLACK AND WITH DIFFERENT COLOR LABELS. YOU MAY CHOOSE ANY COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE AND MAIL US. This service is chargeable. Original edition was published in [1929] and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2025 with the help of original edition. Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually on computer and make them readable. We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We hope that you understand these issues in these old treasure. This is an important book for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure. Our dedicated team is trying to bring these rare books back to the shelves. We are also giving service of printing the hard-to-find books which are not listed in our store. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - English, Pages 288, Print on Demand. Product Disclaimer: Please be aware that because leather is a natural material, slight discoloration or change in texture may be visible. {FOLIO EDITION (Size 12x19 Inches) IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST}. 288.…