Author: Thompson, Leonard P.,
Title: SMUGGLERS OF THE SUFFOLK COAST.
Description: Brett Valley, Hadleigh, 1970, 3rd imp., [ii] blank, 80pp, [ii] blank, number of drawings in line by Brian Edwards, pictorial wrappers, not a comprehensive history of smuggling but a number of smuggling tales the author came across whilst researching material for other books, establishing that Suffolk smugglers were just as bold and no less ferocious than those of Cornwall, Kent and Sussex but no less villainous either, the real heroes of those days being the Officers of the Customs and Excise departments and especially the Riding Officers of the Land Guard who ranged the coastline and heathland in the discharge of an arduous and frequently dangerous duty, slight slant to spine, some surface rubbing at extrems., light creasing at spine and cnrs., edges tanned, good,

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