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In Search of England.
by H.V.Morton
- Used
- first
- Condition
- GD++/VG/ND/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "PENGUIN 1431," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1960.* Publisher: Penguin in association with Methuen.* Binding and cover condition: Mono illustrated card covers showing a black illustration of a Cathedral surrounded by branches. Orange & black titles to face & black to slightly dished spine. Normal orange, black and white Penguin livery. Minor shelf wear to edges, also to head & tail of spine. Slightly grubby. VG.* Contents condition: Some slight wear to inside of front cover. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no other visible faults to pages. Minimal paper darkening throughout & especially to page edges. Seems lightly used. GD++. * Illustrations: One 2 pp. b/w l/dwn map at front. One 8pp. block of b/w photos.* Pages: 277 pp. text. xi pp. index ads & blank pages at rear.* Description:- H.V. Morton was a reporter and obtained a reputation as a young man which led to his presence at important meetings in the second world war. This book was first published in 1927 and, given the experienced eye of the author, provides an important view of the social history of the country between the two world wars. Illustrated with a two page map and a block of black and white photos it gives a flavour of the countryside and the towns & cities as they were in the early part of the nineteenth century.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st thus. 1st. Imp. with some age and wear reducing it to GD++.*
Synopsis
From the intro: "This is the record of a motor-car journey round England. Any virtue it may possess, and all its sins, spring from the fact that it was written without deliberation by the roadside, on farmyard walls, in cathedrals, in little churchyards, on the washstands of country inns, and in many another inconvenient place ... A glance at the route followed will prove that this is not a guide-book ... I followed the roads; some of them led me aright and some astray. The first were the most useful; the others were the most interesting."
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10375
- Title
- In Search of England.
- Author
- H.V.Morton
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - GD++/VG/ND
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Penguin.
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth UK.
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel, Topography, Social History, England.
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