Author: DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE
Title: Swallow of the Sea: Pages from a Yacht's Log
Description: London: Country Life Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 8¾" - 12" Tall. Margaret Dobson. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original light blue cloth with title lettering in silver to the spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has one neat previous ownership inscription to the front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Illustrated by Margaret Dobson.Contents of the book are clean internally with just a little light spotting to the fore-edge of the book and a few foxing spots to the front and rear endpapers..Mrs McGrigor-Phillips (known as Dorothy Una Ratcliffe) was a Yorkshire Poet,but born in Brighton of a Yorkshire father.Dorothy moved to Leeds upon her first marriage and began a writing career that lasted from the 1920s all the way through to the 1960's and she had published some 40 or so books of poetry,memoirs,travel and plays. She was the youngest ever Lady Mayoress of Leeds in 1913.Her books have become much sought after in her much loved Yorkshire and elsewhere,4to 156pp First Edition 1st Impression. Very Good .

Keywords: Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Yorkshire


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