Adventure Youth and Duty. [Rectorial Address by Lord Mountevans, Aberdeen University, 3 May 1937.]
( 'Evans of the BROKE ) ( Captain William MAKEIG-JONES ) EVANS, Admiral Sir Edward R.G.R.
AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH T.L.s
Published: Frederick Warne, [1937]
Stock code: 51004
Price: £345.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly faded dustwrapper.
Rectorial Address by one of the most famous naval officers of his generation. Second in command to Scott of the Antarctic, legendary destroyer skipper ('Evans of the BROKE') in the Great War, the King's emissary to Norway and 'Evans of the Blitz' during WWII. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM ('BILL') MAKEIG-JONES AND HIS WIFE DOROTHY, WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A T.L.s FROM EVANS ('Signal Department, Admiralty, Admiralty House, Chatham'} dated 5 March 1937. Makeig-Jones served as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Evans at Simonstown Naval Base.