The Face of London: The Record of a Century's Changes and Development
by Clunn, Harold, P
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1933. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Book shows some edge wear, gilt lettering at spine, notation in pencil inside cover, extended inscription by previous ownern at front end paper. Warping to text block, foxing to page ends. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, b&w photos throughout. 552 pages. Presentation copy from John Burns to Marjorie Lockton, signed and dated 1933 with a note about having a sore arm from billiards. John burns was a labor agitator at the turn of the century London, arrested and prosecuted for sedition and aquitted in 1886, sentenced for participating in a riot in Trafalgar square then later elected member of Parliament in 1892, 1895, 1900 & 1906.
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- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148066
- Title
- The Face of London: The Record of a Century's Changes and Development
- Author
- Clunn, Harold, P
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simpkin Marshall, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- John Burns, Bloody Sunday, Riot, Trafalgar Square, Labor, Strike, Leader, Cabinet, Politician, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, Marjorie Locklon, Trades Union, Congress, Parliament, Sir Henry cambell-Bannerman, Libberal, Poor Laws, Thames, Battersea , London,
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History;
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