first edition
2009 · [Newton St Margarets
by Hart, Ian
[Newton St Margarets: Pequena, 2009. First edition, square 4to, pp. 303, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title and by James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. "A celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, who was born in the Falkland Islands in 1884, the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents, and who died in Norway in 1956. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to become, in 1912, the first Antarctic Magistrate" (jacket blurb).
(Inventory #: 60184)