The Uncommon Herd de Presslie, William - 2012

Cambridge: Digital Print Media, 2012. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. The author's story of his early life in Aberdeenshire, originally written when he was twenty-four in 1856. He came from a crofting background, and worked on various farms as a boy and a young man, before joining the staff of John Gordon of Cairnbulg and eventually beconing a schoolmaster. He later became a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. 157pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.