Where available, I have provided Amazon links where you can purchase the books for some excellent online prices - click on the book title where possible.  If you can't buy via Amazon; Ebay and your local library are your next best bets for sourcing further information which I may have missed. 

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Rangers specific books (sorted by main author surname)

'The Story of the Glasgow Rangers' (John Allan)

'Eleven Great Years: the Rangers 1913-1924' (John Allan)

'Rangers' Eventful years, 1934-1951' (John Allan)

'The New Era' (William Allison)

Rangers :The Top 11 of Everything Gers (Mark Benstead)

'The Rough Guide 11s Glasgow Rangers (Rough Guide 11s)' (Mark Benstead)

'The Gers : Day-to-Day Life at Ibrox' (Graham Betts)

'Rangers Greats' (Andy Cameron and Dixon Blackstock )

'More Rangers Greats' (Dixon Blackstock)

'"Herald" Book of Old Firm Games' (Chris Boyce)

'Stairway 13: The 1971 Ibrox Disaster' (Paul Collier)

'Follow Follow: Class Rangers Old Firm Matches' (Iain Duff)

'Ten Days That Shook Rangers' (Ronnie Esplin)

'Down the Copland Road' (Ronnie Esplin)

'When Football Was Football: Rangers' (Ronnie Esplin)

'Barcelona Here We Come' (Ronnie Esplin & Alex Anderson )

'The Advocaat Years' (Ronnie Esplin & Alex Anderson)

'It's Rangers for Me?' (Ronnie Esplin and Graham Walker) - widely boycotted by Rangers fans

'The Official Biography of Rangers' (Ronnie Esplin and Graham Walker)

'The Rangers: a Complete History of Scotland's Greatest Football Club' (John Fairgrieve)

'Rangers in Europe' (Alan Fairley)

'Rangers: The Complete Record' (Bob Ferrier and Robert McElroy) 1996

'Rangers: The Complete Record' (Bob Ferrier and Robert McElroy) 2005

'Rangers: Player by Player' (Bob Ferrier and Robert McElroy)

'Blue and True: Unforgettable Rangers Days' (Roddy Forsyth)

'Glasgow Rangers Revisited' (Roddy Forsyth)

'Playing for Rangers' (Ken Gallacher)

'Rangers: The Illustrated History' (Stephen Halliday)

'Rangers: The Waddell Years' (Stephen Halliday)

'The Official Rangers Hall of Fame' (Lindsay Herron)

'The Official Rangers Fans' Guide' (Graham Hunter)

'Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer' (Simon Inglis)

'The Best of the Blues: A Tribute to Rangers' Greatest Ever Team' (Eric Caldow and Robert MacCallum)

'Rangers Treble Kings' (Bob MacCallum)

'The Great Derbies: Blue & Green, Rangers v Celtic' (Archie MacPherson)

'An Illustrated History of Glasgow Rangers' (Rab MacWilliam)

'Rangers Football Legends' (Stuart Marshall)

'Rangers: The Managers' (David Mason)

'Rangers: A Match to Remember' (David Mason)

'Rangers vs. Celtic The Old Firm Guide' (Neil McDermott)

'Bring on the Spaniards by the Score' (Neil J. McDermott)

'Rangers Season-by-season: The Light Blue Facts and Figures Book' by Robert McElroy

'Rangers Football Club (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)' (Robert McElroy)

'50 Years of Rangers in Europe' (Robert McElroy)

'Rangers' (Ian Morrison)

'The Old Firm' (Bill Murray)

'The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland' (Bill H. Murray)

'Bhoys, Bears and Bigotry: Rangers, Celtic and the Old Firm in the New Age of Globalised Sport' ( W.H. Murray)

'Glasgow's Giants: 100 years of the Old Firm' (William James Murray)

'The Old Firm in a New Age' (William James Murray)

'Growing With Glory' (Ian Peebles)

'Rangers F.C.:The 25 Year Record' (David Powter)

'Rangers Official All-Time Greats' (Douglas Russell)

'The Gallant Pioneers' (Gary Ralston)

'The Fatalities at the Ibrox Disaster of 1902' (Robert Shiels) [PDF File of Actual Report]

'Aye Ready: Rangers War Heroes' (Paul Smith)

'To Barcelona and Beyond: The Men Who Made Rangers Champions of Europe' (Paul Smith)

'Rangers (Superteams)' (Superteams series)

'We Will Follow Rangers' (Hugh Taylor)

'Blue Heaven: Ibrox Trophy Room' (Willie Thornton)

'Voices of the Old Firm' (Stephen Walsh) 2005 

'The Rangers Miscellany' (John White)

'Rebirth of the Blues: Story of the Rangers Revolution' (Chick Young)


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