A Very Gallant Gentleman by Louis C. Bernacchi - 1935

E-188: T. Buttersworth. Good. 1935. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. T. Buttersworth, London, UK. 1935. 240 pgs. Illustrated with a frontispiece and black and white plates in text. Second Printing. Bound in purple cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards are faded and worn to the extremities and the spine. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. The story of Capt. Lawrence Edward Grace Oates in the Antarctic, who died in the race for the South Pole with Scott. Disabled by frostbite & slowing his companions, he left the tent to die, saying to his friends, "I'm just going outside, and may be sometime..." E-188; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages .