To the islands of Patteson

SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED LIMITED EDITION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Koinonia Press.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slightly grubby with light shelf wear to edges & corners. Black fabric spine with no creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author signed to fep. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Slightly grubby to page edges all round. VG* Illustrations: A number of b/w photo-illustrations (taken from colour slides), one reproduced engraved portrait at front and fold our line drawn map showing the Anglican Diocese of Melanesia.* Pages: 177 pp. text. ii pp. blank pagrs at rear.* Product Description:- This booklet consists of the diary of a visit to these Pacific Islands in connection with the Centenary of the Martyrdom of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Malanesia, who originally came from Feniton Court in Devon and was ordained in Exeter Cathedral, served as Curate in the little parish of Alfington, adjoining Ottery St Maru, and left Feniton for Melanesia in 1855, never to return , for he was martyred in the Reef Islands of the British Solomons in 1871.* This is a VG, author signed, copy of the 1st./1st. with some shelf wear & slight ageing.*