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A LOCAL HABITATION (Life and Times, Volume 1: 1918 - 40),
by Richard Hoggart
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus Ltd, London 1988 hardcover, 6¼" x 9", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket In this vivid first volume of autobiography Richard Hoggart [observant chronicler of English working-class life] reveals himself orphaned, growing up near Leeds in a world of terraced back-to-backs, visits from the local Board of Guardians, and potted meat sandwiches. Hardworking and articulate, he did well enough at Leeds University, to graduate and travel to Nazi Germany, and then prepare to leave Yorkshire via the Army, for the world beyond
working-class England between the wars.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 35699
- Title
- A LOCAL HABITATION (Life and Times, Volume 1: 1918 - 40),
- Author
- Richard Hoggart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6¼" x 9", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus Ltd, London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Keywords
- Autobiography biography Richard Hoggart Leeds Potternewton Hunset Holbeck working-class England
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McCrae, Victoria
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