London: A Social History
by Porter, Roy
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 014010593X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140105933
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About This Item
Penguin Books, London, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Second impression . Size: Small Octavo. 538 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. It appears un-read and is in fine condition.. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. 'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; English History; England; ISBN: 014010593x. ISBN/EAN: 9780140105933. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10602. . 9780140105933
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10602
- Title
- London: A Social History
- Author
- Porter, Roy
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014010593X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140105933
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB137 london, history, england, social, political, History; English History; England; Unbranded ISBN: 014010593x EAN: 9780140105933 Porter, Roy London: A Social History
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