Hi, "CATT" Because we are in the business of finding rare and/or expensive books that we can re-publish on CD for people like you, we have some expertise in tracking down things like this. (Just as an aside, I don't tell this list what we have available of interest to the BC area because your list administrator has told me she doesn't want our information posted on this list. Unfortunately this also means we don't look for books in on your area.) Your book was a little hard to find so I think it is very rare indeed. I did find one record of it in the Library of Canada and I've made a copy of that record below (converting it to "plane text" for posting has messed up the formatting but I think you should still be able to understand it.): AMICUS No. 28823982 (this is an important number for finding it again) Monograph TITLE(S):*Tales and legends of the Upperward of Lanarkshire PUBLISHER: Biggar, Scotland : D. Lockhart, 1860 DESCRIPTION: 1 v. (various pagings) SUBJECTS: Legends--Scotland--Lanarkshire Lanarkshire (Scotland)--History I also checked the location of this only copy and it's held at the University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library and it's Interlibrary Loan Holdings Summary number is: DA 880.L2 T34. I tried to understand if the book was available for interlibrary loan but it said it was available in one page and then said it was not available on the next page. I'd say your best bet would be to take this information to your local public library and get someone who knows their way around the technicalities of the Canadian ILL system to give you a hand. It was clear that the Guelph library would make copies for you on request, but it looked a little expensive if you didn't know exactly what pages you wanted. Incidentally, I also checked the World-wide availability of copies of this book for sale and there were none! That's only about the second time I've ever completely failed to find a copy of a book for sale at ANY price! That's why I think it is a very rare book. Hope this is of help to you. Malcolm Archive CD Books Canada Inc. Attn: Malcolm Moody - President P.O. Box 11, Manotick, Ontario, K4M 1A2, Canada. phone: (613) 692-2667 e-mail: [email protected] Canadian web site: http://www.archivecdbooks.ca > From: CATT <[email protected]> > Date: 12 December 2004 01:09:57 GMT-05:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Lockhart, Forrest, DeVere, Vere, Douglas,Dawson, Hasileig, > Dickson, Wallace > > > These are some of the families mentioned from The Upper Ward of > Lanarkshire, mentioned in the collected Tales and Legends of the Upper > Ward of Lanarkshire, Scotland, published in Biggar, Scotland by D. > Lockhart. Probably previously published in a newspaper in Biggar, > Scotland, before being published in 1860 as a book. > > <snip> > > The record gives no author, but rather D. Lockhart as publisher, in > Biggar. > > Is the book in someone's library or a book seller's library somewhere? > Would anyone who has read any of these tales tell us what they are > about. > > I have ancestors names among the families mentioned in the Tales. > > ______________________________