London: Perpetua Books, 1958. 111pp, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped with minor edge wear and fading to spine. Slight wear to spine ends. Collected from a series in Punch. Using the 19th century London labour and the London Poor as a basis, the authors show how the burden of poverty has shifted into some rather surpring quarters.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Searle, Ronald. 4to.

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Bookseller: Lawrence Jones (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 012224
Title: The Big City, or the New Mayhem
Author: Atkinson, Alex; Searle, Ronald
Illustrator: Searle, Ronald
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Perpetua Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1958
Keywords: Searle Drawing Humour Humor Punch Poverty London
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