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J. M. Barrie

By F. j. harvey Darton

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Hardcover:

9780838317808 | Haskell House Pub Ltd, May 1, 1974, cover price $75.00

J.M. Barrie

By William Aubrey Darlington

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Hardcover:

9780838317686 | Haskell House Pub Ltd, June 1, 1974, cover price $75.00

The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

By Charles Higham

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Hardcover:

9780393075076 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | also contains Everyday Wisdom 2016 Calendar | About this edition: Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

Paperback:

9780393331103 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 28, 1976, cover price $19.95

Robert Service: A Biography

By Carl Frederick Klinck

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Hardcover:

9780070822825 | McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, February 1, 1977, cover price $10.98

Barrie: The Story of J.M.B.

By Denis G. MacKail

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Hardcover:

9780836967340 | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977), cover price $39.95

Pilgrims Way: An Essay in Recollection

By John Buchan

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Hardcover:

9780404152789 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $32.50

Scottish Journey

Product Description: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry. Edwin Muir's journey took him from Edinburgh to the Lowlands, to Glasgow and the Highlands, and the book, while a masterpiece of travel writing, is also a quest for the real nature of Scottish identity...read more

By Edwin Muir

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Hardcover:

9780906391044 | Reprint edition (Mainstream, December 1, 1980), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry.

Paperback:

9781851588411 | Mainstream, July 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: First published in 1935, Scottish Journey is a perceptive, subtle, and beautifully written account by one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry.

John Buchan and His World

Draws on family papers and uses previously unpublished photographs to provide an account of the adventurous life of the Scottish statesman-writercountry gentleman, with emphasis on his political and literary accomplishments

By Janet Adam Smith

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9780684162782 | Scribner, May 1, 1984, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: Draws on family papers and uses previously unpublished photographs to provide an account of the adventurous life of the Scottish statesman-writercountry gentleman, with emphasis on his political and literary accomplishments

Pilgrim's Way: An Autobiography

Personal account of the experiences of John Buchan, twentieth-century author and Governor-General of Canada

By John Buchan

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9780881841077 | Carroll & Graf Pub, December 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Personal account of the experiences of John Buchan, twentieth-century author and Governor-General of Canada

John Buchan: A Biography

Product Description: a definitive and scrupulously candid study of a remarkable man.'___ The Financial Times .

By Janet Adam Smith

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9780192818669 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1985), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: a definitive and scrupulously candid study of a remarkable man.

A Twelvemonth and a Day

Product Description: In childhood there is no distinction between, boy, bird, mammal or fish. A Twelvemonth and a Day is about change and growth, the fluctuating patterns in the worklife of a fishing and farming community throughout the whole cycle of a year, and about the year itself, the life of nature...read more

By Christopher Rush

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Hardcover:

9780080324289 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Rush, Christopher

Paperback:

9780862414399 | Canongate Books Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In childhood there is no distinction between, boy, bird, mammal or fish.

9780080324692 | Pergamon Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

By Don Richard Cox

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9780804421461 | Ungar Pub Co, July 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

Sherlock Slept Here: Being a Brief History of the Singular Adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in America, With Some Observations upon the Exploits

Product Description: Book by Lachtman, Howard

By Howard Lachtman

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9780884962274 | Capra Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Lachtman, Howard

The Clyack Sheaf

By David Toulmin

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9780080345178 | Pergamon Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $10.50

The Clyack Sheaf: Sketches of Life and Characters in Northeast Scotland

By David Toulmin

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Hardcover:

9780080345260 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $19.95

Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist

Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Julian Symons

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Hardcover:

9780892962471 | Mysterious Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Paperback:

9780892969265 | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The North American Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham

Product Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), whose fascinating life and neglected literature are finally attracting the attention of a wide audience throughout the world, was an inveterate traveler to Europe, North and South America, and North Africa...read more

By John Walker (editor)

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9780817303556 | Univ of Alabama Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), whose fascinating life and neglected literature are finally attracting the attention of a wide audience throughout the world, was an inveterate traveler to Europe, North and South America, and North Africa.

Myself and Michael Innes: A Memoir

Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

By J. I. M. Stewart

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9780393025934 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers a humorous, colorful account of an Oxford academic's coexistence with his alter ego, the author of detective novels, and provides an intimate look at his circle of Oxford-bred literary figures and friends

God Bless the Borders

By Lavinia Derwent

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9781850572503 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $11.95

The Life and Work of Samuel Rutherford Crockett

By Islay Murray Danaldson

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Hardcover:

9780080365978 | Pergamon Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $35.00

Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner

By Alastair Reid

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9781877727108 | White Pine Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $10.00

Off in a Boat

Product Description: In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides.The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail...read more

By Neil Gunn

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9780941533980 | New Amsterdam Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat.

A Biography of John Buchan and His Sister Anna: The Personal Background of Their Literary Work

By Martin Burgess Green

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9780889469457 | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $139.95

The Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crimes Investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Product Description: Peter Costello has unravelled the overlap of Conan Doyle's real life and fictional interest in crime with this brilliant insight into the living mind of Sherlock Holmes. From Jack the Ripper to Sacco and Vanzetti, here is a masterpiece of detective work in its own right.

By Peter Costello

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9780881847383 | Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Reveals the brilliant mind of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who was a 'consulting detective' when he was not writing fiction

Paperback:

9780786700202 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Peter Costello has unravelled the overlap of Conan Doyle's real life and fictional interest in crime with this brilliant insight into the living mind of Sherlock Holmes.

Vagabond of Verse: Robert Service

Product Description: A biography of the poet Robert Service. It describes his childhood in Scotland, his time spent working in the Yukon shortly after the Klondike gold rush, and his years as a correspondent and intelligence officer in France during the war.

By James A. MacKay

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9781851587049 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A biography of the poet Robert Service.

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