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McGINTY, STEPHEN: : FIRE IN THE NIGHT: THE PIPER ALPHA DISASTER. [An association copy.]

LONDON.MACMILLAN,2008.

ISBN 9780230708068.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.An association example - owner's inscrptn describing his occupation as the Press Relations Officer for Piper Alpha disaster.] FINE/FINE.Neat,handwritten,black ink owner inscrptn: 'Lt Brian Ferrand BEM,RN Press Relations Officer for Piper Alpha disaster July 1988' to top edge of front pastedown - partially hidden by dw/dj's front inner flap,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,black+red seascape scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj, with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - though there are some small,tiny (accidental?) concomitant diagonal creases to top corners of pp243-248 respectively,otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - aforementioned owner inscrptn excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xiipp+1-289pp [paginated] includes note on sources,a 16pp prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 20 chapters and an epilogue,8pp contemporary colour (the majority) photographs and 1 b/w photograph, acknowledgements,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication (to the 167 victims),an epigram, contents list/table nd 2pp blanks at the rear. Please see the following sequential alpha-numerical book ID rja601516 for another book from this owner's personal library - 'THE LAST LIBERTY - The biography of the SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN' by Walter W. JAFFEE,a US 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2nd imp,warmly dedicated,SIGNED,and place named+dated,edn. The fire was visible seventy miles away as a distant,flickering flame on the horizon.The heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle at a perimeter of one mile,the tongues of flame extending hundreds of feet above the rotor blades.On the surface a converted fishing trawler inched as close a possible,but the paint on the vessel's hull blisterd and burnt,and the rope handrails began to smoke.In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their scalps burned with the heat. At the centre stood,at least for now,the Piper Alpha oil platform,110 miles north-east of Aberdeen,once the world's single largest oil producer.On 6 July 1988,its final day,it was ablaze with 266 men onboard.Only sixty-one would survive. 'Fire in the Night' tells,for the first time and in gripping detail,the devastating story of the world's worst offshore oil disaster.In a narrative that combines interviews with survivors,witness statements and testimony from the official inquiry into the disaster,'Fire in the Night' reveals the human sories of bravery and loss within the unfolding tragedy. It took just sevety-five minutes for the Alpha Piper oil rig to begin to collapse from its postion 300 feet above the surface of the North Sea and become a flaming pyre of twisted metal. This is the moving and vivid tale of what happened on that fateful night inside an oil inferno. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Owner association,inscribed copy

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