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Sark Discovered - The Prospect of an Island. Being a literary and pictorial record of the island of Sark, wherein is portrayed her beauties and glories, and the true essence of her ancient Being by Clark, Leonard
Revised Edition
- Bookseller: Kalligraphia
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 000704
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Near Fine
- Edition: Revised Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Dennis Dobson
- Place: London
- Date published: 1971
- Keywords: Leonard Clark Sark Discovered Prospect Island Literary Pictorial Record Beauties Glories Essence Ancient Channel Islands Map Illustrated LocalHistory Topography CBBLKNM
Book Description
London: Dennis Dobson, 1971. Illustrated with frontispiece map of Sark, and 20 pages of photographs by W.F. Leeming in colour and black-and-white, 93pp including Bibliography, Some General Information about Sark, and Index of Proper Names. Sark, the smallest of the 4 main Channel Islands, is the gem of them all, a secure, stout little territory with a history and a constitution all its own. The Dame of Sark, Sibyl Hathaway, the 21st Seigneur, contributes a preface in which she writes: 'We have long awaited a book of this kind, which is characterised by a sympathetic understanding of the island... and a feeling for beauty combined with human interests which I am sure will delight all who know and love Sark'. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, but end papers and title page are clean, just front free end paper has been price clipped. Dust-jacket has one tiny chip to front flap and slight rubbing to top of spine reinforced with archival tape, otherwise jacket is clean, in lovely condition and in a loose protective cover. A Very Good+ copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket.. Revised Edition. Hardback. Very Good+/Near Fine.
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