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Buy this book on-line GIBSON, FRANK: : The Isles of Scilly: Eye Witness - A Continuation 1985-1990. [Author SIGNED copy.]UK.TRURO,CORNWALL.BERIC TEMPEST,undated but c1990. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim landscape 8vo wraps,SIGNED,1st edn.[A scarce companion volume to GIBSON's earlier 'THE ISLES OF SCILLY EYE WITNESS 1958-1984',which is also a scarce issue.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn, but author/photographer's double signature SIGNED - one a facsimile (to title page) and another similar but separate,genuine handwritten blue ink signature (to reverse of front cover) - both without dedication.Printed and designed by Beric Tempest (UK) undated and without an ISBN. Bright,crisp,glossy,contemporary b/w photographic illustrated card covers; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some inevitable but very minimal,light and superficial scoring/indents to either cover - not pervasive or obtrusive though! Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? UK,slim landscape 8vo wraps, SIGNED,1st edn,1-76pp [paginated] includes profuse contemporary b/w photographs - all by Frank Gibson throughout,each accompanied with a couple of lines of text describing each one.
Author/photographer's personal recollection and anthology,collection of photographs chronicling events in and on the Scilly Isles covering the period 1985- 1990.Some events include Richard Branson's Atlantic Challenger attempt at the Atlantic Blue Riband for the fastest crossing by sea from Ambrose Light,New York to the Bishop Rock Lighthouse.South-Western Electricity Board's joined-up electrification of St Agnes, Bryher,Tresco and St Martins,1987 freeze-up in Scilly,winter gales in '89/90,Tom Gentry,an American,attempts and smashes Branson's earlier winning crossing,1990 saw promotion of a World Championship for six-oared gig-racing and also in the same year,controversy over a proposed airport runway extension at St Mary's,and Anneka Rice's Challenge Anneka to build a low water quay at Bryher - to be built in 3 days!
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