Men and Herring.

Mitchison (Naomi) and Denis MacIntosh.

Men and Herring.

A Documentary.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 2 full-page illustrations and a full-page diagram, pp.122+[3] (illustrations), f'cap.8vo., original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and lightly faded, spine slightly cocked, endpaper maps, dustjacket with backstrip panel a little darkened, very good

Publication Details: Edinburgh, Serif Books. 1949

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Christine [Simpson] with love from Naomi. Christmas 1949'. Mitchison's collaborator in this work was a fisherman of Kintyre, where she and her husband had bought Carradale House ten years earlier; the book is written in diary-form, each of the six chapters recording a single day.

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