Item #56517 Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan. G. F. MORTON.
Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan.

Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan.

London: Christopher Johnson, 1957. [Pedagogy and Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. With seven half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a few in-text maps and illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'with the author's | every good wish. | Xmas /57.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine toned to brown and gilt dulled. Very good. An account of various school boys' trekking expeditions led by Dr. "Geoff" Morton, Headmaster of Leeds Modern School 1920-1947. Item #56517

From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.

Price: £75.00

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