Hebridean Memories -- with Photogravure Frontispiece and Ninety-six Illustrations
by Seton Gordon
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- Hardcover
- first
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1923 1st Edition h/b 180 pages (incl index), b&w photos Lightly foxed & sl gutter-cracking a few places but still very sound and substantially cleanfor age, frontis tissue-guard intact, neat penned inscription half-title, penned name fep, vg gilt-docorated cloth with sm nick spine -- quite nice copy of an interesting book Great early photos incl crofter's (chimneyless & windowless) dwellings, seaweed harvesting, peat cutting, herring fleet in Castlebray, weaving on a hand-loom, bird life etc etc ........ Early Hebrides Life & Wild-Life - (Gordon 1923)
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