West Coast Ballads, and other pieces
West Coast Ballads, and other pieces
West Coast Ballads, and other pieces

West Coast Ballads, and other pieces

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by  J. Carfrae Alston

with drawings.  by J.C.A.

Glasgow, privately published, and printed by MacLure, MacDonald & Co., 1899.

28 pages + 8 plates reproduced from drawings.

very good condition hardback in the

original textured cloth binding. browning to end-papers.  


fairly excruciating verse, mostly written in a 'hielan' dialect, but with a certain charm evocative of Clyde and west coast of Scotland sailing in the 1870s and 80s