Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1951
Description: VeryGood. Orig. Cloth with Gilt Dec. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo-over 7 3/4-9 3/4 tall. many photos, maps, bibl., 383 p, binding tight. Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins, London
Date Published: 1951
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Ex library copy which has been re-bound by library in mottled green cloth-covered boards with two black labels on spine (title / author and library number). This rebinding has resulted in the loss of the two endpaper maps. Library ink stamps on f/ep and title page and on a page near the back; library paper label inside front board and on f/ep. Otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with the author's time in South Georgia ... read more
"Delighted to finally get this book. My interest was mainly personal as one of the crew members was my late uncle Campbell Gray. We had photos of him with the pengiuns Margaret and Emma (named after two little neighbours) but I had never read the book."
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