Language: English
Published by Orkney Herald, Kirkwall, Scotland, 1936
US$ 205.89
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Quarter bound wine cloth on a light tan card board. Title strip to spine. Original waxed clear wrapper.Gilt top edge. Tight and clean copy.
Published by William Peace & Son, Kirkwall, 1915
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 164.71
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce 1st edition copy in original quarter cloth and card binding. Compiled from the Admiral's correspondence retained at Graemshall together with copies of the letters that his Factor, David Petrie filed (his original letters were destroyed). Published at the start of World War I - to be of 'special interest to those desiring information upon the naval and military activities of Orkney and Orcadians during the last great war'. The binding is clean and sound with some very light marking to the back board. The contents are in very good clean condition with some light browning at the endpapers. Some pages are unopened. The bottom corner of p53 has a crease where it was turned over.