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Scandal!: A Scurrilous History of Gossip, 1700-2000
by Roger Wilkes
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1903809630
- ISBN 13
- 9781903809631
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Atlantic Books. Very Good/Very Good. 2002. Hard Cover. 8vo 1903809630 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. 363 pages clean and tight. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat inscription on ffep. Photographs on plates. Newspaper and magazine gossip is a potent and sulphurous brew - much derided and much devoured - that long ago became part of the daily diet of millions. The raw ingredients are scandal, rumour, glamour and scurrility, and the best is shot through with (preferably illicit) sex, disclosure and danger. How and why has this happened, and where will this obsession lead us? "Scandal!" takes us from Regency London, where muck-raking scandal sheets were hawked in the streets, to the modern free-for-all where tabloid and internet gossip rule. From the madness of King George to the madness of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica, this book goes behind the scenes to look at the mechanisms that disseminate gossip and the power and influence that it continues to exert. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144685
- Title
- Scandal!: A Scurrilous History of Gossip, 1700-2000
- Author
- Roger Wilkes
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1903809630
- ISBN 13
- 9781903809631
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...