Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 107
A Collection of Books Relating to the Birkenhead Six Books, The Unfortunate Ship, The Story of H.M. Troopship ´Birkenhead´, by J. Lennox Kerr (Harrap and Co., London, 1960), with original dust-jacket; A Deathless Story, or The ´Birkenhead´ and its Heroes, by A.C. Addison and W.H. Matthews (Hutchinson and Co., London, 1906), with later Naval and Military Press reprint softback; Drums of the Birkenhead, by David Bevan (Larson Publications, 1972), with original dust-jacket; Salvage of the Birkenhead, by Allan Kayle (Southern Publishers, Johannesburg, 1990), with original dust-jacket; The History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, &c, in Southern Africa, Volume 2 (with a Chapter on the wreck of the Birkenhead), by Duncan Campbell Francis Moodie (Frank Cass and Co., London, 1968), with original dust jacket, the books all hard backs unless stated. Two Prints of the Birkenhead ´The Wreck of the Birkenhead´, from the finished Sketch for the picture by Thomas M. Hemy; a picture of the Birkenhead disappearing beneath the waves, by Peter Briles, both mounted, framed, and glazed. The Gordon Everson Catalogue of the Birkenhead Saga An illustrated and annotated catalogue of relics sold in the preceding lots, with additional information and photographs relating to the Birkenhead (9) Estimate £ 50-80
Sold for
£180
