Twelve Light Years by Aitken (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. MacInnes, Ian (illustrator). P/B 156 pages condition is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+/VG+. y First Edition. HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Albyn Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs bu tslight lean to spine, no major faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £7.95. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. In protective film library jacket. VG+* Contents condition: ex-library copy with the usual stamps & labels to prelims. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very light reading wear, no marks to text. VG* Illustrations: B/w photos, prints and line drawings within text. Nice B/w vignettes by Ian Macinnes to Chapter heads.* Pages: 156 pp. text. iii pp. Blank pages at rear.* Description: Two lighthouses - Stroma in the Pentland Firth and Buchan Ness off the Aberdeenshire coast - and Orkney-born Margarete Aitken?s life while her husband was a lighthouse keeper between 1954 and 1966, form the background to this charmingly written autobiography. All over Britain lighthouses have been robotised. They may indeed disappear altogether if modern technology and satellite positioning become even more generally used. So this memoir is all the more fascinating as a piece of history.* A NEAR FINE copy with library stamps and light wear reducing it to VG+*. n.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. MacInnes, Ian (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback edition. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper and a half-inch tear to the left-hand side of front panel of same; minor bumping to corners of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of her life as a lighthouse-keeper's wife at two Scottish lighthouses between 1954 and 1966, firstly on Stroma in the Pentland Firth, then Buchan Ness near Peterhead. 156pp, b&w frontispiece, b&w drawings at chapter heads. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. 156pp; frontispiece photograph; 16 illustrations by Ian MacInnes. Black boards. No inscriptions. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. [an autobiography by the author whose husband Jimmy was a lighthouse keeper between 1954 and 1966, firstly on Stroma in the Pentland Firth and later at Buchan Ness off the Aberdeenshire coast].