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MY LIFE AMONG THE BLUEJACKETS
by AGNES WESTON
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: JAMES NISBET, 1910 SIGNED Copy.Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. 205 x 140 mm approx. xvi + 330 + 4pp of publisher's adverts. Frontis b/w photo portrait with tissue guard + 16 other b/w illustrations as called for. Autobiography of English philanthropist "Aggie Weston" or Ma Weston who founded sailors missions and rests to support the men and families of the Royal Navy.Her work continues through the charity "Aggies".First published in October 1909 the copy offered by us is of the 4th impression of 1910 and is inscribed and signed by the author to the front free end paper. Good (Book- Moderate rubbing to extremities of boards.Offset browning to end papers. Mild foxing to edges of book block. Binding sound). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121200
- Title
- MY LIFE AMONG THE BLUEJACKETS
- Author
- AGNES WESTON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- JAMES NISBET
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Signed books, Aggies, Ma Weston, Royal Sailors Rests, Sailors Missions, Agnes Weston, Ensleigh, Lansdown, Miss Wintz, Maritime books, Biographies, Books on line Brighton,
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