AScottishBookCollector
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Very sorry to hear this
I was lucky enough to have some long blethers with the man.
We are lessened by the loss of him
I was lucky enough to have some long blethers with the man.
We are lessened by the loss of him
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Very sorry to hear this
I was lucky enough to have some long blethers with the man.
We are lessened by the loss of him
I was lucky enough to have some long blethers with the man.
We are lessened by the loss of him
The millwork gives it a Scandinavian feel
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The millwork gives it a Scandinavian feel
What a beauty
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
What a beauty
I am impressed yet again
Thank you
Thank you
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I am impressed yet again
Thank you
Thank you
Can't find the poem in the index here
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Can't find the poem in the index here
In which of his works does this appear?
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In which of his works does this appear?
Was the cemetery built around the stone? Or was it moved there?
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Was the cemetery built around the stone? Or was it moved there?
If Trump is NOT revealed in the Epstein files then he still needs to be impeached and arrested immediately.
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If Trump is NOT revealed in the Epstein files then he still needs to be impeached and arrested immediately.
Saltire booklets - "MacDiarmid & Goodsir Smith were dead, so theirs were edited (from) personal accounts still in print. Naomi Mitchison and I wrote our own. Mine, published in 1988, was last of a series which should have continued while any Scots knew they had a literature" - Of Me and Others by AG
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Saltire booklets - "MacDiarmid & Goodsir Smith were dead, so theirs were edited (from) personal accounts still in print. Naomi Mitchison and I wrote our own. Mine, published in 1988, was last of a series which should have continued while any Scots knew they had a literature" - Of Me and Others by AG
If Hitler helps a kitten out of a tree, he's still Hitler
Are you really that easily swayed?
Are you really that easily swayed?
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If Hitler helps a kitten out of a tree, he's still Hitler
Are you really that easily swayed?
Are you really that easily swayed?
Gdansk baulks?
I KNEW it!!
I KNEW it!!
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Gdansk baulks?
I KNEW it!!
I KNEW it!!
Carnegie bequeathed funds for 2,500 libraries worldwide, 1700 of the in the U.S... Some of them - most of them - are architectural gems. Each style was chosen by the community.
There's one just two streets over from where I type
There's one just two streets over from where I type
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Carnegie bequeathed funds for 2,500 libraries worldwide, 1700 of the in the U.S... Some of them - most of them - are architectural gems. Each style was chosen by the community.
There's one just two streets over from where I type
There's one just two streets over from where I type
Having just found out that my Great Granda was an ironworker based on Hope Street, these projects have taken on a new interest for me
ta for this
ta for this
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Having just found out that my Great Granda was an ironworker based on Hope Street, these projects have taken on a new interest for me
ta for this
ta for this
He doesn't seem happy to be dead
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
He doesn't seem happy to be dead
Episodic in form, it follows the adventures of a young man sent to sea to make his fortune - as did Scott.
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Episodic in form, it follows the adventures of a young man sent to sea to make his fortune - as did Scott.
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
Tom Cringle's Log began to appear serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1829 upon Scott's return.
Scott’s second story, Cruise of the Midge, was also first published ..
#ScottishLiterature
.. in Blackwood's in 1834–1835.
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
.. in Blackwood's in 1834–1835.
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
Both books are similarly bound and have the bookplates of the same owner. Really both very nice books, without the foxing or wear usually seen. They look as if they were just pulled down from the bookshop shelf, excellent examples of the book collecting term ...
.. abbreviated as SRBBTAPTOTS, i.e. Some Rich Bugger Bought Them And Put Them On The Shelf
#ScottishLiterature
#ScottishLiterature
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
.. abbreviated as SRBBTAPTOTS, i.e. Some Rich Bugger Bought Them And Put Them On The Shelf
#ScottishLiterature
#ScottishLiterature
What a wonderful story - new to me
Ta
Ta
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What a wonderful story - new to me
Ta
Ta