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scientific and creative sparks of human genius ever. Or would you vote for the abolition of slavery, bread, banking, epic poetry, marriage, Marxism, pottery, mass- production, quantum theory, the telephone, universities, vaccination, the wheel or zero? 318pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


69090 I USED TO KNOW THAT: Geography by Will Williams


Have you forgotten all you ever learned about oxbow lakes and rivers? Coasts, tectonics, climate and weather, global issues, world population and settlement, industry and energy, tourism and development, the subject of geography is brought alive principally by showing us how wide


ranging it is. Everything from volcanic eruptions to eco- tourism, climate change to models for the development of settlements is here and it is all geography! As the author says, this is an holistic discipline encompassing science, economics and sociology, geographical sub- disciplines like geology, geomorphology and tectonics and others too numerous to mention. 192pp, diagrams. £9.99 NOW £4.50


69047 MOON SHOT by Dan Parry


Millions of people held their breath on 16th July 1969 as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the Moon. How did they learn to depend on one another as they endured this most intense period of their lives? From the personal tragedies they encountered along the way to the terrifying climaxes of a mission that redefined humanity, ‘Moon Shot’ draws on interviews with the many leading


participants and hundreds of hours of archive material to tell the compelling true story of an event that captured the imagination of generations. 312pp in paperback, colour and b/w photos. £11.99 NOW £4


SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY


My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.


- J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds


66257 FIRSTBORN by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter


In the final volume in the Time Odyssey trilogy, the alien Firstborn, the primary intelligent entities of the universe, renew their attack on human civilisation. In the earlier novels the earth has been divided into areas representing different periods in history, and the novel opens with Bisesa Dutt awaking in 2069, nineteen years after her last memory, to find that her daughter


Myra now has strands of grey hair and that the world is threatened by a Q-bomb. Making their escape to Mars in a space elevator, one of the extraordinary inventions by Clarke which anticipated real space developments, Bisesa and Myra meet one of the huge Firstborn Eyes which have been trapped there. The futures of Bisesa, Myra and Myra’s daughter Charlotte remain uncertain as the book ends. 290pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £2


66744 SCI-FI ART: A Graphic


History by Steve Holland This book covers magazine cover art, comic books, the concept art of Star Trek and Star Wars, cinema art including Drew Struzan’s classic posters for Blade Runner and Harry Potter, and finally other media such as video games, record sleeves and


toy design. 19th century artists such as Riou and de Neuville helped to fix the images created by Jules Verne in the popular imagination and almost 100 years later the surrealist cover artist Richard Powers focused on emotions rather than scenes. The most brilliant covers of all were Frank Hampson’s Dan Dare panels for Eagle in the 50s. Stingray, Thunderbirds and Judge Dredd dominated the 70s, and by this time TV and movie tie- ins were becoming standard, with the Marvel Comics Group taking the Star Wars story beyond the films. 192pp, softback, 24 x 22cm, colour reproductions, remainder mark. $24.95 NOW £9


66388 STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester


Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was a journalist by profession who set the science fiction field alight in the 1950s through the new waves of the 60s and the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. The official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman, is that he has no education, skills, recommendations or merits. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and a secret that could change the course of history. 244pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2


67886 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE


BEFORE YOU DIE by Steven Jay Schneider From the classic low-budget Flash Gordon tales to the slick CGI-realised world of The Matrix, science fiction films have long pushed at the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic. Here is your perfect one-stop guide to them all. Strap yourself in for close encounters, distant planets, black holes, time travel, strange outfits and fluorescent drinks. 416pp in chunky softback packed with colour photos from The Incredible Shrinking Man, Planet of the Apes, A Clockwork Orange, Return of the Jedi, Terminator 2, Dune and nearly 100 more. £9.99 NOW £4


GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON


A special collection of rare, first edition paperbacks


The University of Aberdeen’s


collection of George Washington Wilson’s photographic negatives provides a valuable storehouse of topographical


material. They date from 1870-1908 and


portray many facets of Victorian and early Edwardian life and consist of no less than 45,000 glass negatives.


69431 VANISHING GLASGOW by Heather Lyall


Subtitled ‘Through the Lens of George Washington Wilson’, this body of photographic work came about when Thomas Annan was commissioned to photograph the ‘old closes and streets of Glasgow’ in 1868 when it was planned to replace what were then the worst slums in Europe with buildings of quality. The results tempted photographers from further afield, notably George Washington Wilson, to record the changes and celebrate the endeavour which thrust Glasgow to the fore in Victorian times, making it the Second City of the Empire. The photographs in this publication were taken over a period of 135 years and give a unique time-lapse record of the city and its people at work and play. Here is Glasgow Cathedral and the East End, the high Victorian Necropolis, pedestrianised streets, George Square, Gilmore Hill, Telford’s Broomielaw Bridge, the Royal Concert Hall, the railways, the fair, the university, the botanic gardens and much more. Hundreds of quality


monochrome photos in 156 page large


softback. 1991 first edition and apologies if a little scuffed due to its age.


£12.95 NOW £4


69426 SCOTTISH RAILWAYS by George Washington Wilson


Edited by Alastair Durie and Roy Mellor, this rare first edition dated 1988 is published by AUL Publishing. The University of Aberdeen’s collection of George Washington Wilson’s photographic negatives provides a valuable storehouse of topographical material. They date from 1870-1908 and portray many facets of Victorian and early Edwardian life and consist of no less than 45,000 glass negatives. The period covered by this collection of outstanding photographs was a time when the railway network was still expanding in Scotland and the Aviemore-Inverness direct line was opened in 1892 with the last major elements, the West Highland Line completed in 1895. Captured in his wonderful black and white photographs are train stations, passengers and goods trains, bridges like the Tay Bridge across the Fife, an inspection engine, the Forth Bridge under construction, Edinburgh Waverley station circa 1860, Clyde steamers, Glasgow and the South West, Aberdeen and all from the heyday of steam through the eyes of Scotland’s most famous photographer. 44 page large softback. £4.95 NOW £2.50


69428 SPORT AND LEISURE IN VICTORIAN


SCOTLAND by George Washington Wilson Edited by Alastair Durie, this first edition dated 1988 is published by Dalesman Books. The University of Aberdeen’s collection of George Washington Wilson’s photographic negatives provides a valuable storehouse of topographical material. They date from 1870-1908 and portray many facets of Victorian and early Edwardian life and consist of no less than 45,000 glass negatives. This special collection looks at fishing, hunting, shooting and deerstalking, which carried the highest prestige: ‘London Brewers shoot the grouse and lordling shoot the deer.’ Rentals of Scottish sporting estates spiralled and given the Scottish climate, a comfortable lodge was essential with their billiard rooms and libraries. Golf was another traditional sport and leagues for competitions were formed in football. Here too are the buildings like the grand hydropathics where


66809 GAME-PLAYERS OF TITAN by Philip K. Dick


Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was arguably America’s greatest SF author . This classic, here in 2008 paperback edition, was first published back in 1963. Following the war with Titan, the last few remaining humans are cared for by machines and aliens. Forced to gamble in a game known as Bluff, players win or lose property and spouses in order to maximise the extremely remote chances that a pairing might produce a child. When Pete Garden loses his wife and home in a suicidal gamble, he accidentally stumbles upon the much, much bigger picture. In reality, the hideous, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players, and the stake is the Earth itself. 223pp. £7.99 NOW £4


66348 FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman First published in 1974, this novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy, but his greatest test will come when he returns home. Relativity means that every few months’ tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting. 240pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75


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69303 NORTH-WEST HIGHLANDS


by Norman Newton In terms of sheer drama, breathtaking beauty, historical significance and variety of scenery, the north-west Highland region of Scotland is unbeatable in the UK and, arguably, the world. This softback from David and Charles is packed with everything you need to


know about Highlands heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna and includes spectacular photography. The region covered here is that to the west of the Great Glen, the ancient rift valley that today comprises Lochs Ness, Oich and Lochy and links Inverness on the east


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visitors had exclusive rights to fish for salmon, trout and pike on the River Dee and elsewhere. Here are horseracing days, ice-skating on frozen lakes and ponds, curling, bowling and more. 48 page very large softback packed with photos. With original low cover price. £4.25 NOW £2.50


69425 GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON IN


THE HEBRIDES by Donald Macaulay 1984 first edition large softback, 44 pages featuring more of Scotland’s most famous photographer’s late Victorian and early Edwardian photographs. Here are school children on St Kilda with their schoolmaster wearing frock type garments and neckerchiefs, the dangerous task of getting the fulmar and culling gannet, Skye cattlemen with their Highland cattle with a long crook and plaid and Glengarry bonnet, the town of Stornoway with the fishing fleet anchored in the bay, Castle Bay Barra with Kishmul Castle and a herring fleet at anchor, a lighthouse on the island of Scalpay off the East Coast of Harris and a conservatory full of exotic trees and flowers at Stornoway Castle among the tremendous archive images.


£4.95 NOW £2.50


69429 ROYAL DEESIDE by George Washington Wilson


Visit the Royal Highland Games with Scotland’s most famous photographer and follow Queen Victoria on the old Deeside Railway to Ballater. With an introduction and commentary by John S. Smith, here is how Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort acquired Balmoral in 1848 which placed the Dee Valley firmly on the international map. A number of contemporary views illustrate the immense change in the Deeside scene over the last 90 years - the square at Torphins in the late 1890s is contrasted with the same square in 1984, Banchory High Street, curling on the Loch of Aboyne seen at Ballater and Balmoral, Crathe Church, the Braemar gathering and the Royal Pavillion and more. Large softback, 48pp. £4.95 NOW £2.50


69430 ST. ANDREWS & FIFE by George Washington Wilson


Edited by Alastair Durie and Jennifer Ingram, this rare first edition is published by AUL Publishing. The University of Aberdeen’s collection of George Washington Wilson’s photographic negatives provides a valuable storehouse of topographical material. They date from 1870-1908 and portray many facets of Victorian and early Edwardian life and consist of no less than 45,000 glass negatives. Here we retrace the steps of Victorian Fife with all its historic and scenic attractions and the tourist market. Important to Wilson’s success was Royal Patronage which started with a commission to photograph the rebuilding of Balmoral Castle in 1854- 5. He charged £54 and 15 shillings for 11 days work executing views and the printing of 82 impressions. Here is Rossend Castle, Burntisland, a tea room, Kirkaldy High Street, Dysart Town Hall, West Wemyss Harbour with some Royal Navy tars lounging at the door of the harbour-master’s tally hut, the beach at Elie, Lundie Tower at Anstruther from the pier with a lovely photograph of a fishing boat, golf on St Andrews Links and beautifully dressed Victorian children photographed outside the old and new Town Halls at Newburgh and many more. 48 page large softback, 1994 first edition. £4.95 NOW £2.50


69427 GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON IN


EDINBURGH by by Alastair Durie More charming old photographs which cover the period 1860-1905 from the stock of the largest photographic business in Britain, the Aberdeen firm of Wilson & Co. which went into liquidation in 1907. Wilson learnt the art of photography in Edinburgh in the mid 1840s and the city remained a particular favourite of his. We have a multilayered archive here of the city over 40 years and in his own words the city offered ‘the prospects from the elevated parts of the city and neighbourhood are of singular beauty’. What is noticeable here is the absence of poverty. Instead we see three generations of Newhaven fishwives, the HMS Donegal in 1860, Leith Harbour 1880, Portobello, Dalkeith, Lasswade, Blackford Hill, St. John’s Church, West End Princes Street 1883, Mound to Old Town 1860 where a horse brake awaits passengers next to the Royal Institution, the Albert Memorial, (whom of course G.W.W. had met in


person), Waverley Bridge, the General Post Office, Burns Monument, Canongate Tolbooth, University,


Grassmarket and many more. 44 page large


softback, 1986 first edition. £4.25


NOW £2.50


coast to Fort William on the west. Arranged into five geographical regions, we start at Inverness then move anticlockwise, across the far north coast, into Wester Ross, which includes the awe-inspiring regions of Torridon and Applecross, down to Fort William, home of the UK’s highest peak, Ben Nevis, and then along the Great Glen back to Inverness, via Drumnadrochit, Invergarry and Urquhart Castle. As well as a wealth of information and helpful advice for lovers of the great outdoors - and it does not get much greater or outdoors-y than here! - all points of historical note are covered, including events such as the Clearances, the Scottish diaspora and the many battles fought, along with fascinating titbits of local lore and tradition. 112pp. Colour.


£6.99 NOW £3


68101 LORE OF SCOTLAND: A Guide to Scottish Legends by Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill


This big compendium of tales, organised by region, covers the whole fascinating range of Scottish lore. Scottish landscape is dramatised in legends of devils hurling rocks from the heights or nature spirits flooding valleys. Saints like Columba and champions


like William Wallace are reported to have left prints of their hands or feet in solid rock. Other sites are linked with magicians, scholars and scientists who were remembered as wizards. Legend offers a means of interpreting history as well as geography, and clan feuds, border raids and religious persecution have shaped the country’s mythology. The scholarship is impeccable. 554pp, b/w reproductions. £25 NOW £8


65921 THE SCOTS: A Photohistory


by Murray MacKinnon and Richard Oram


In the decades following the 1839 invention of photography, Scotland became enamored of the new art. Here are the triumphs of a self- confident nation - the completion of


the Forth Bridge and the stream of vessels that slid down the slipways of the Clyde to bind together a far- flung empire - but also its injustices, the story of the rural and urban poor, and the evictions that drove people from the land to seek work in the cities, or renewed hope in emigration to the New World. Here is the grandeur of Edinburgh Castle. There, a mere decade after the beginning of photography, are the golfers of Scots Craig and salmon fishers in the Ness Islands. An enthralling visual history. 224 large pages with 236 striking b/w and sepia photos. £24.95 NOW £10


68603 EDINBURGH: A History of the City by Michael Fry


The author provides a vivid account of the great city of Edinburgh from earliest times to the present, showing how its cultural, political and social history have borne on one another. A romantic landscape of sea and glen, broad vistas and hidden corners, set on seven hills is embellished by a style of architecture combining stern classicism with antiquarian whimsy. This provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. It sets in stone a history shaped by nation, Union and Empire. Here are John Knox and James Boswell, David Hume and Walter Scott, Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in a city that is both dark as in Auld Reekie and light as in its appellation of the Athens of the North. 419 pages with plates in colour and black and white. £25 NOW £7


69196 CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE IN


SCOTLAND by Andrew Patrizio Some of Scotland’s most significant contemporary artists work as sculptors. This magnificent exploration presents modern Scottish sculpture in all its many forms, from the work of the work of the post-war giants like Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull, whose work continued to influence the scene right until the end of the century, to successive generations of sculptors such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Boyle Family and David Mach, who have achieved worldwide acclaim. In addition, it also highlights an energetic younger generation prominent on the international stage, including Andy Goldsworthy with his outdoors ‘Hazel Leaves’ and breathtaking installation ‘Touchstone North’ on page 69, Douglas Gordon, Christine Borland, Jake Harvey, Bill Scott, Aileen Keith and Tracy Mackenna, who today chart new territory in the ever-expanding field of sculpture. A renowned expert on the history of Scottish art, exhibition curator and a sculptor himself, Andrew Patrizio has produced the first major overview of contemporary Scottish sculpture with vivid profiles of 24 notable artists and their work. With approx 100 stunning colour photos of featured works of art, many in double-page spread, and full details and background to each, there is also an extremely useful reference section at the end which lists the career of the featured artists, including appointments,


exhibitions (both group and solo), collections and bibliography of publications in which they have been


featured. Heavy glossy paper and big colour illus, 1999 first edition, 164pp, 10½”×11½”.


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