Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140064117 ISBN 13: 9780140064117
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ann Redpath; (illustrator). Later Printing. 317 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing at the spine; no interior markings. The front cover features Figure at a Table by Ann Redpath. This anthology contains: The House of the Famous Poet by Muriel Spark; The Wireless Set by George MacKay Brown; The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg; The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott; The Gudewife by John Galt; The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant; The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson; Beattock for Moffat by R. B. Cunninghame Graham; The Outgoing of the Tide by John Buchan; The Tax Gatherer by Neil M. Gunn; A Wee Nip by Edward Gaitens; In the Family by Naomi Mitchison; Sealskin Trousers by Eric Linklater; Smeddum by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; The Mennans by Robert MacLellan; The Disinherited by J. F. Hendry; Alicky's Watch by Fred Urquhart; Pedestrian by Elspeth Davie; The Money by Ian Hamilton Finlay; and Survival Without Error by Iain Crichton Smith. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1935
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 550 grams.
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1948
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 420 grams.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Birket Foster, John Gilbert (illustrator). HARDBACK NODustjacket, UNDATED but around 1883, Early Edition, NF-/GOOD+, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Embossed DARK Green Cloth, Gold Gilt FACSIMILE SIGNATURE on front cvr, with Gold gilt decoration & Title on spine cvr, Cover light extremities wear rub, Spine ends cvr tiny chips tears & along edge spine, 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 IN. Interior few light creases & pencil marks, 329 pgs.
Published by Published by Proceedings of the Chemical Society of London to 1912. 1910 | 1924., 1909
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Hard back binding in publisher's original royal blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. A titan in the world of science, Sir Robert Robinson was Professor of Chemistry at the Universities of Sydney, Liverpool, St Andrews, Manchester and University College London as well as having briefly led the British Dyestuffs Corporation laboratories, in 1947 he received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm. Robinson Close, in the Science Area at Oxford, is named after him, as is the Robert Robinson Laboratory at the University of Liverpool, the Sir Robert Robinson Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester and the Robinson and Cornforth Laboratories at the University of Sydney, he was President of the Chemical Society from 1939 to 1941. In Very Good condition. SIGNED by Sir Robert Robinson to the front free end paper 'With kind regards to Professor D. R. Kulin from R. Robinson - March 1932.' Researches in Organic Chemistry 1909 - 1924 | Collection of 48 Transactions of the Chemical Society Papers (and Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and Faraday Society) Comprising: A New Synthesis of Oxazole Derivatives | The Synthesis of Nitrognoscopine and Allied Substances (Preliminary Note) | Synthetical Experiments in the Group of the Isoquinoline Alkaloids, Part I: Anhydrocotarninephthalide | Part II: The Constitution of the Condensation Products of Cotarnine and the Condensation of Cotarnine with Aliphatic and Aromatic Nitro-Compounds | B-Gnoscopine (Preliminary Note) | Anhydrohydrastininemeconine (Preliminary Note) | 2-Diketohydrindene | Some Derivatives of Oxazole | Mechanism of the Benzoin Synthesis (Preliminary Note) | 2 - Phenyl - 5 - Styryloxazole | Researches on Pseudo-Bases | Some Derivatives of Safrole | Synthetical Experiments in the Group of the Isoquinoline Alkaloids Part IV: Gnoscopine | Some Derivatives of Isocoumarin and Isocarbostyril | Eudesmin and its Derivatives | Phenols Occurring in Some Eucalyptus Oils | Note on the Nitroguaiacols | A Decomposition of Certain O-Nitromandelic Acids | An extension of the Theory of Addition to Conjugated Unsaturated Systems. Part I. Note on the Constitution of the Salts of 1-benzylidene-2-methyl-1 : 2 : 3 : 4-tetrahydroisoquinoline | A Synthesis of Tropinone | A Theory of the Mechanism of the Phytochemical Synthesis of Certain Alkaloids | The Scission of Certain Substituted Cyclic Catechol Ethers | 5-Bromoguaiacol and Some Derivatives | The Action of Halogens on Piperonal | Veratricsulphinide | A New Synthesis of Tetraphenylpyrrole | Nitro-Derivatives of Guaiacol | A Synthesis of Isobrazilein and Certain Related Anhydropyranol Salts | Harmine and Harmaline (Parts IV and V) | The Conjugation of Partial Valencies | An Explanation of the Property of Induced Polarity of Atoms and an Interpretation of the Theory of Partial Velencies on an Electronic Basis | Note on 2 : 3- and 2 : 5-Dinitro-p-Toluidines | Cevadine (Part I) | The Morphine Group (Parts I and II) | Octet Stability in Relation to Orientation and Reactivity in Carbon Compounds | Some Derivatives of Benzoprylium | The Mechanism of E. Fischer's Synthesis of Indoles. Application of the Method to the Preparation of a Pyrindole Derivative | Strychnine and Brucine (Part II) | A Synthesis of Pelletierine | 5-Carboline and Some Derivatives | A New Route to the 3-Hydroxybenzopyrylium Salts | Nitration of 2 : 3-Dimethoxybenzaldehyde. Joseph Lister | Edward Hope | William Henry Perkin | Walter Morrell Roberts | Gertrude Maud Robinson | Robinson Percy Foulds | David Bain | Henry G. Smith | David Cardwell | Ellice Ettie Pedin Hamilton | Ellen Margaret Hindmarsh | Isabel Knight | Anne Mary Bleakly Orr | Margaret Mary Williams | Janet Forrest McGillivray Brown | Fanny Pollecoff | Herbert Grace Crabtree | William Ogilvy Kermack | James Scott | Alexander Killen Macbeth | John Masson Gulland | Arthur Lapworth | Chinyann Kumara | Bernard Holtom Roberts | Georg.