Archie gemmill autobiography sample
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The article below first appeared in issue 7 of Derby County Memories magazine in December 2014 and was updated in August 2021 to include more recent publications. Copies of the magazine can be purchased on eBay.
When the subject of football memorabilia is raised with football fans, including those of Derby County, it is invariably collectable items such as matchday programmes and tickets that spring to mind along with badges, pennants and of course replica shirts. But, in my opinion, books about the club you support are just as collectable and equally rewarding; sometimes more so. Let’s be honest though; only on rare occasions have books about football received rave reviews from critics and none have come within a million miles of winning the Nobel Prize for literature. Whilst books about cricket have frequently been categorised in the Premier League of sporting literature, those on the subject of football have often ranged from somewhere between the Championship at one end rig
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The Holly and the Horn: Burnett of Leys Family and Branches
By: Bailey, Eileen A; Burnett, James C A.
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Leys Publishing : 2005
Seller ID: 011941
ISBN-13: 9780953864027
Binding:Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Hardcover with in full faux leather with gilt titles, in Fine condition, dustwrapper with slight shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. First edition, Signed and Inscribed to a previous owner by James Burnett and flat Signed by the same on the title page, pp xxiii, 327, b&w and colour illustrations throughout, index. Updated genealogy of Burnett of Leys family and branches with chapters on heraldic emblems, recently associated families, a Royal connection, Burnett merchants, early and current Leys Estates, portraits in Crathes Castle, profiles of eminent Burnetts, the Adelphi Stone, poem...
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First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Color pictorial, stiff wrappers, [10], 217 [2] pp., prologue, illustrated from photographs, maps, acknowledgments, endnotes, selected bibliography with commentary, photograph credits. Richard Collins, an Arizona rancher/author, operates a 13,000 acre ranch near the Mexican border. In this true story, "Collins joins up with a group of Mexican riders retracing the pathways of Eusebio Francisco biograf, the pioneering Jesuit präst who explored the same borderlands three hundred years prior. The riders include a cross-section of Mexico's growing mittpunkt class, bonded by faith in the Catholic Church, love of family and their country, and dedicated to the cause of Kino's sainthood." Voted Best Southwest Book of the Year 2014. "An altogether fresh approach to borderland issues, informed by scholarship but rooted in visceral knowledge of the region; a unique, mature, well-informed, and compassionate