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+*

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Seller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 3446
Title: Twelve Light Years
Author: Aitken, Margaret
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG+/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 028498776X
ISBN 13: 9780284987761
Publisher: Charles Skilton Ltd
Place of Publication: Haddington UK 160
This edition first published: 1988

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