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Verlag: Bowes & Bowes (1950), Cambridge, 1950
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Small 3/8" chips at corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy inscribed by the author and his wife Mina: "Martha G. L. Tottenham / from / Mina and Tom Lethbridge / Xmas. 1950". The inscription is possibly to Martha Georgina Loftus Tottenham (1864-1953). xix, [1], 146 pages + frontispiece. 27 in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed blue-green. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. With a 2 page Foreword by T. D. Kendrick, Director and Principal Library of the British Museum. Chapter titles: Introduction; The Earliest Men of the Islands; The Bronze Age; Men of the Brochs and Gallic Walls; Roman Interlude; Saxon, Scot and Pict; The Celts in Ireland; The Sea Road to Greenland; Norsemen and Eskimos in Greenland and America; The Crofting Culture; Notes; Short Bibliography. "Finally, I am writing the book with a background of personal experience, and am not like Strabo, who criticized Pytheas from the security of his library. I have crossed all the seas mentioned in it in ships of under a hundred tons burden, and have wandered on the shores of all the lands, except Wineland the Good." - from T. C. Lethbridge's Introduction, pp. xviii-xix. "It is a remarkable picture, this voyaging of Christian monks to the far north. The skin boat skimmed like a stormy petrel over the surface of the ocean. An endless succession of fulmars glided by and peered like owls into the men's faces." - p. 77.
Verlag: Hulton Press, Ltd., U.K., 1940
Magazin / Zeitschrift Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Low (illustrator). First Edition. 59 pages. Features: Black-Out By-Election in Central Southwark; Women's Army for Britain - many great photos with article; How to Photograph a Beauty - photo-illustrated tips by Angus McBean; The Happy Knitters - Keswick women knit for troops; I Was a Worker in a German Arms Factory - article with photos of German war production; Match Fishing; A Girl Goes Cycling - nice photo feature on how ladies can cycle fashionably given the petrol shortage; Sweden's Gold - article with photos of mining in the town of Boliden; Diary of the War - No. 23 - The Twenty-First Week; No. 4 in the Series "How I Would Run the War" - How I would Use the Navy; Cartoon "Hungry Mouths" shows Goring feeding the mouths of heavy artillery while families look on; Where Are Our Leaders?; Match Fishing - photos of competitive fishermen; The History of Weapons, No. 6 - The Machine Gun. Nice Shredded Wheat ad on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy.