Shipwreck
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Jonathan Cape, London.
BINDING
Navy blue cloth boards with gilt design and lettering.
BOOK CONDITION
Boards a little faded and worn at edges. binding secure. Printed pages and illustrations remain clear and largely unmarked.
DUST JACKET
Generally worn with some staining. Preserved in removable book wrap.
EDITION
First edition 1974.
DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by members of the Gibson Family, many full page, with annotations. 26 x 21cm.
SYNOPSIS
Introduced and annotated by the novelist John Fowles. An historical collection of photographs of shipwrecks around the Isles of Scilly taken by four generations of the local Gibson family from the 1860's onwards.