LETTERS FROM THE CAPE LADY DUFF GORDON FIRST EDITION 1921

LETTERS FROM THE CAPE LADY DUFF GORDON  FIRST EDITION 1921

Editor John Purves Publisher Humphrey Milford 1921

175 mm by 125 mm 180 pp

 Hardcover Green cloth boards title in gilt to spine Impressed logo to front Some marks to boards  and a little wear to spine otherwise very good  Discolouration to first and last endpaper Bonding starting to be exposed at back  otherewise the book is clean and tight and is a good copy. An excerpt of the letters"When I wrote last Sunday, we putour pilot on shore, and went down Channel.  It soon came onto blow, and all night was squally and rough.  Captain ondeck all night.  Monday, I went on deck at eight. Lovely weather, but the ship pitching as you never saw a shippitchbowsprit under water.  By two oclock agale came on; all ordered below.  Captain left dinner, and,about six, a sea struck us on the weather side, and washed a goodmany unconsidered trifles overboard, and stove in three windowson the poop; nurse and four children in fits; Mrs. T andbabies afloat, but good-humoured as usual.  Army-surgeon andI picked up children and bullied nurse, and helped to balecabin."