Gibraltar; The Keystone

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo in blue cloth boards with gilt spine title; white, blue and red pictorial DJ xiv, 335 pages illustrations 22 cm Near fine in near fine DJ; bright, tight and clean. Hardcover.

"In his rich tapestry, which is woven back and forth through time, Mr. Stewart discusses Admiral Rooke's unauthorized acquisition of Gibraltar for England in 1704 and the resulting Anglo-Spanish conflict over Gibraltar's status which continues more angrily than ever at the present moment; he analyzes the persistent smuggling which seems as indigenous to Gibraltar as her apes or Barbary Partridges; and he talks of the curious melting pot which constitutes her 20,000 man citizenry and of the interesting values and customs produced by it." -- DJ. The author served as chief Civil Engineer and deputy Commissioner of Lands and Works to the Government of Gibraltar from 1952 until 1961.