William a gillies (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 456 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.…

HARDCOVER. nd (c1906), Revised edition. A good copy in shelf rubbed brown cloth boards with black lettering/illustration on the spine and top board. Light tanning of the edges and endpapers and title page but otherwise the contents are very clean and undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. A near fine copy, name on the front end paper.

Condizione: Near Fine. Second edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xvi, 439pp. 95 illustrations, folding 2-colour map. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (slight chafing of the extremities, price-clipped). ISBN 090296514X.…

Fine. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover book in dustjacket , second edition, first published in 1938. The story of the antiquities, lands and people of a highland district with illustrations and a map. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Very Good , very slightly worn dustjacket. Pictures available.…

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: Fine. 2nd Edition. Hardback in blue covers, in Very Good condition. No dust wrapper. SCARCE COPY, pp 4439, b&w photographs, drawings, index, colour pull-out map at the rear. In Famed Breadalbane: The Story of the Antiquities, Lands and People of a Highland District.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In English.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.…

First Edition. Respected history of the Breadalbane district - Kenmore and Killin. First edition in the original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. xvi, 439pp. folding coloured map to rear. VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 439 pages top edge gilt. Illustrations from drawings and photographs throughout ,folding coloured map. Contents clean and tight ,neat inscription to front end paper dated 1938. Original publishers slate blue cloth gilt title and crest to upper cover. Binding clean and tight with no splits or marks.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Canadian Edition. 58 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of clown bottle-feeding baby pig; If Canada Can Curb Crime Why Not the U.S.?; Blind River - the story of a butterfly who said she'd take bananas; The Haunted House on Beacon Street - uncanny horrors baffle a Boston churchman and his cultured, aristocratic wife; Mike - the revealing story of a radio star's romance (part 2 of 2); Movie News, Reviews and Photos - The Little Giant, A Bedtime Story, The Devil's Brother, Phantom Broadcast; The Private Life of Marie Dressler - article with photos, including Charlie Chaplin; Scarlet Woman (part 6); Pa Potter Procudes a Miracle; Born to Raise Hell (part 9); Antidotes (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Classy color back cover ad for Beech-Nut Luster-Mint candies - Lemon, Orange and Lime. Above-average but not excessive wear. Moisture-induced rippling and moderate discoloration in places - all text clearly legible. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Thrasher, Leslie; Cameron, Robert A.; Gillies, William RacRae; Stevens, W.D.; Flagg, James Montgomery (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The Munro Press 1938, first edition. Includes a postcard of the british embassy. Dedication address to Lieutenant Colonel Sinclair. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…