Lyall S (42 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN:9780500280331. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1700grams, ISBN:9781856692816.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With owner's name and inscription inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:1874056900.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0707303273.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780748641895. …

Condition: Fair. Volume 25. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9789004317444. …

Condition: Very Good. 17 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hard. Condition: Good. Undated. Presumed first printing. c.1925. Good. Lacking dust jacket. 0.

1st. Edn. pp. v, 310. plus 32pp. publisher's catalogue. In original navy blue cloth, bevelled boards. Boards slightly marked and rubbed. Occasional light soiling of contents, corner missing from page 15 of catalogue. A good plus to very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. No inscriptions etc. Looks barely used.

1st. Ed. 8vo. vii + 252pp. Original boards with d/w. Written in prison after the Battle of Worcester by a Scottish Royalist. Part of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies series. ISBN 0 7073 0327 3 US$13.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated reprint, c1916. Original red cloth, lettered in black. A later reprint, but a clean, tight copy: very good+. Annie S. Swan wrote more than 200 books, the majority under her own name, but including some 70 or more using the pseudonym "David Lyall". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Sort of an ex-library copy, but never had a pocket or most other library marks. Very tight, clean copy. ; Illustrated. Includes surrounding areas. ; 8vo; 1196 pages.

Hardcover. pp.xii, 176 with 24 charming col. plates. 8vo. Hardback. Ffep. removed. Occ. light spotting to text pages and small closed tear to blank margin of p.113 o/w. contents fine. Front internal hinge tender. Original decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering and motifs vg. to nr. fine. The milieu of Dutch horticulture and the history of its origins. Three appendices describe the tulip and hyacinth trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.…

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Some rippling to cover cloth. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 276pp + ads. David Lyall was a pseudonym of Annie S. Swan.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 142 pages, minor rubbing to dust jacket, bottom and top of backstrip show light wear- gilt edged all around. W. S. Stacey (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. (vii) 252pp. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine in price clipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Clean tight and bright. A lovely copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp vii, 135. Illustrations. Original card wraps.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Edición Ilustrada. London, The Lonsdale Library, Volume XV, 1945, 592 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yachts Construction. Yachts Cruising Yachts With Auxiliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road. Accidents and Mishaps. Working Repairs. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Index and Glossary of Sea Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With hundreds of Illustrations. Ilustrado con 415 figuras y 63 planchas. Muy buena encuadernación tela de editor, lomo con decoraciones y letras doradas. Muy buen estado. 4to.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original red and pansy illustrated cloth covers, gilt and black title and author block lettering to the spine and the upper panel, all page edges gilt. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 447 printed pages of text with chapter heading illustrations and initial letters. Prize message to the front free end paper dated 1914, light rubbing to the corners and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925.…

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 301pp + ads. David Lyall was the pseudonym of Annie S. Swan.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper.; 389, [3 (blank)] pages. Plate leaves included within the pagination count. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Spine title: "1858 / In the Lee of the Hokonuis / 1963". Page dimensions: 213 x 136mm. New Zealand regional history, Waimumu-Te Tipua districts. "During the period 1955-60 Mr. Lyall Barry was headmaster of the Waimumu School and as a these he wrote a history of the Waimumu-Te Tipua districts." - from the Foreword by A. O. Ross, Chairman, Lyall Barry Book Committee. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2005 John Donald paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Fifteenth Century'; Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards, 'Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24: The Genesis and Evolution of a Scottish Poetical Anthology'; Alessandra Petrina, 'Donne Gentili and Courtly Ladies: A Comparison Between Dante's Beatrice and the Lady of the Kingis Quair'; Jonathan A. Glenn, 'The Manuscript History of Sir Gilbert Hay's Buke of the Law of Armys: A Study'; Rosemary Greentree, 'Literate in Love: Makyne's Lesson for Robene'; Klaus Bitterling, 'Insular and Continental Traditions Behind Robert Henryson's Fables'; R.J. Lyall, 'Henryson, the Hens and the Pelagian Fox: a Poet and the Intellectual Currents of his Age'; John McNamara, 'Folkloric Patterns in Henryson's Fables: A Sociolinguistic Approach'; John MacQueen, 'Lent and Henryson's 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; R.W. Smith, 'The Meaning of the 'Nekhering' in Henryson's Fable of 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; Edward W. Bradburn, ''Prolog' and 'Moralitie': Authorial Apostrophe in Robert Henryson's Fables'; Anne M. McKim, 'Henryson's Use of the Conjunctive Phrase 'with that' in the Moral Fables'; J. Derrick McClure, 'Blind Hary's Metrics'; Marace Dareau, Lorna Pike, and Harry D. Watson, 'DOST and Older Scots Scholarship'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth Century'; Priscilla Bawcutt, 'Manuscript Miscellanies in Scotland from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century'; Ma. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma, 'Linguistic Anglicisation in The Complaynt of Scotland: A Study of Further Diagnostic Variables'; A.A. MacDonald, 'On First Looking into the Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1565)'; Joanne Norman, 'William Dunbar and the Bakhtinian Construction of the Self'; Robert Drexler, 'Dunbar, Douglas, and the Art of Memory'; C. Marie Harker, 'Skirting the Issue: Misogyny and Gender in Lyndsay's Ane Supplication Directit - to the Kingis Grace, in Contemptioun of Syde Taillis'; Evelyn S. Newlyn, 'The Female Voice in Sixteenth-Century Scots Poetry'; Keely Fisher, 'Eldritch Comic Verse in Older Scots'; Theo van Heijnsbergen, 'Modes of Self-Representation in Older Scots Texts'; Janet Hadley Williams, ''We had the ky and thai gat bot the glaikis': Catching the Echoes in Duncan Laideus' Testament'; William Gillies, 'Gun ann ach an ceo 'Nothing Left but their Mist': Farewell and Elegy in Gaelic Poetry'; Michael Chesnutt, 'Otterburn Revisited: A Late Medieval Border Ballad and its Transmission'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'; Anneli Meurman-Solin, 'Women's Scots: Gender-Based Variation in Renaissance Letters'; Sarah M. Dunnigan, 'Feminising the Early Modern Erotic: Female-voiced Love Lyrics and Mary Queen of Scots'; Jamie Reid-Baxter, ''Judge and revenge my cause': the Earl of Morton, Andro Blackhall, Robert Sempill and the Fall of the House of Hamilton in 1579'; David J. Parkinson, 'Alexander Montgomerie: Scottish Author'; Regina Scheibe, 'The Function of the Animal Massacre in John Burel's Passage of the Pilgremer'; Daniel Fischlin, 'Like a Mercenary Poet': the Politics and Poetics of James VI's Lepanto'; Morna R. Fleming, ''The End of an Auld Sang'? Scottish Poetry of the English Reign of James VI and I'; Louise Yeoman, 'James Melville and the Covenant of Grace'; David W. Atkinson, 'More than One Voice: the Poetic Accomplishment of William Alexander'; David Reid, 'Hume of Godscroft on Kings and Subjects'; Margery Palmer McCulloch, 'Liz Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Suppression of the Female Principle'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 342 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 12 illustrations ; 19 cm. A novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing [1916]. [iv, 288pp]. In blue cloth-covered boards, blind tooling, deep blue titles on spine (worn, faded at edges, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, some marks). Pages toned throughout, else internally neat, and tidy. In its original, worn and torn dust jacket, with loss at both spine ends. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. 12mo. A romance novel. David Lyall was one of the pen names of Annie S Swan, one of the most popular authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over two hundred novels to her name. She was also a suffragist, a Liberal activist and founder member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party. The Land of Beulah is one of her later novels and now quite hard to find, especially in a dust jacket as this one is. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. The Association for Scottish Literary Studies No. 13. vii, 252 p. 22 cm. Black cloth in green pictorial dustjacket.

EXTREME-ORIENTLYALL (Sir A. L.).Etudes sur les murs religieuses et sociales de l'Extrême-Orient.Trad. P., 1885, in-8°, br., couv. défr., dos cassé. 750 gr.

Two volumes. Green cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine, the Second series volume is an ex library copy has some light soiling to prelims and both volumes have browned endpapers, but generally a very good set. Volume I, xx +332pp, Volume II, xiv+395 plus 5 pages of publisher's adverts. These essays presented in chapter form were first published in 1882. Subjects addressed: Religion of an Indian Province; On the Origin of Divine Myths in India; Influence Upon Religion of a Rise in Morality; Witchcraft and Non-Christian Religions; Missionary and Non-Missionary Religions; On the Formation of Some Clans and Castes in India; The Rajput States of India; Our Religious Policy in India; The Religious Situation in India. …