Island Going. To The Remoter Isles, Chiefly Uninhabited Off The North-West Corner of Scotland
Robert Atkinson
Published by Collins, London, 1949
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Brown cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild rubbing to cloth at extremities. The pictorial dust jacket is price clipped, with moderate shelf wear and a small 1cm loss at the top of the spine. Hand cut pages are a little dusty at edges. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Seller Inventory # 001686
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Title: Island Going. To The Remoter Isles, Chiefly ...
Publisher: Collins, London
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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Island Going. To The Remoter Isles, Chiefly Uninhabited, Off The North-West Corner of Scotland
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Collins, London, 1949
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Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, 384pp, well-illustrated with black and white plates and sketched maps, hardcover, bound in brown cloth, gilt lettered, some markings and fading to cloth, map endpapers, dust jacket clipped and portions missing o/w good condition, Collins, London, 1949. * a fascinating exploration of the inhabited and deserted islands of the Outer Hebrides including Handa, North Rona, Shiant, Canna, Flannan, Eigg, North Uist, Monach, St. Kilda, Sula Sgier, Lewis, etc. Seller Inventory # CAT 22/911
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Island Going: to the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland
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London: Collins, 1949
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper faintly frayed. "It was the chance-found name of a rare sea-bird [Leach's Fork-tailed petrel] that first led the author northwards; but the Hebrides, in spite of their weather and their wastes of peat-bog and stone, impelled him to return. A month spent on the 300 grassy acres of North Rona, forty miles to seaward from the north-west corner of Scotland, was followed by visits to the untended sanctuary of the Shiant Isles, to the outpost lighthouse of the Flannan Isles, to the crumbling village of St. Kilda and the extraordinary gannet rock of Sula Sgeir. Island going became an annual quest, in which the rare sea-bird was a chief character" (dustwrapper blurb). Seller Inventory # 3S100016
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ISLAND GOING: to the Remoter Isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the North-West Corner of Scotland.
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Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION 8vo. grey cloth hardback, gilt, in unclipped dust jacket. Maps as endpapers. 384pp., Indexed, illustrated with b/w plates and maps. Bookplate to blank facing half-title. Occasional light foxing, heavier to prelims and foredge. Lightly foxed dust jacket with light edgewear and clear tape reinforcements to head and base of spine. A VERY GOOD COPY in GOOD+ DUST JACKET. (Shelf 23) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct. Seller Inventory # 58123
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Island Going to the Remoter Isles, Chiefly Uninhabited off the North-West Corner of Scotland
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Collins, London, 1949
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust jacket with light edgewear, faint soiling and chipping at both head and heel. Interior clean. Contains 47 plates. Book. Seller Inventory # 030905
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Island going. To the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland.
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London, Collins, 1949., 1949
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Hardcover
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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8vo, pp. 384; with frontispiece and 26 double-sided photographic plates, several maps within text and to endpapers; very good in original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt (light wear to extremities), with original illustrated dust jacket (a few small losses to edges and tears to folds, small repairs to verso).First edition, complete with dust jacket. 'In July 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Their quest was to last for twelve years and took them from their Oxford base to many of the remote and often deserted islands off the north-west coast of Scotland. Island Goingis the account of their adventure. Not only is it packed with marvellous descriptions of the wildlife and landscapes of the islands as well as the journey itself, it also paints a vivid portrait of the way of life of the islanders and their history and traditions' (2019 reprint). Seller Inventory # T5058.14
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Island Going: To the Remoter Isles, Chiefly Uninhabited, off the North-West Corner of Scotland
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Collins, London, 1949
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this account of the author's exploration of uninhabited islands off the coast of Scotland. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-six plates. Collated complete. A detailed account of the author's exploration of the uninhabited islands off the north-west coast of Scotland, with remarks on the overgrown ruins that remain, as well as the seals and sea-birds that now populate the area. Written by Robert Atkinson, a British writer and explorer. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear. Light sunning to the spine and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # 879T12
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