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Exeter, 1904. Hardback. Very Good for age. Hardback. Please note that this is the original publication, not a modern facsimile. Rough cut pages, 251 pages plus. Originally owned by A.C. Prideaux of Padstow. Also library sticker for Martin Burdick. Otherwise near very good throughout. Solid and firm. Minor foxing in places. Blundell's School, Tiverton , Devon. S2

Very Good Book and wrapper. Signed by the auhhor ( Roy Hattersley ) on the title page.irst edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 520pp. B/w photos in plates. Signed by the author under title. The author sees the Edwardian age as one of great change, the start of modern Britain; social and political history. Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it was an age of invention as well as tradition. It saw the first widespread use of the motor car, the first aeroplane and the first use of the telegraph. It was also a time of vastly improved education and the public appetite for authors such as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster was increased by greater literacy. There were signs too,… Read More

1995. First edition. hardback. Very Good / very good. hardback. Very Good / Very Good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book is in very good condition: SIGNED by Andrew O'Hagan to the title page. . A Social History of Glasgow and Gloucester. Light tanning of pages. The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers. In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir, Andrew O'Hagan clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.Z1