mayhew henry editor (33 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Zustand: New. Brand New.

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. 360pp, b/w frontis, 11 b/w illustrations, dustjacket rubbed & repaired with sellotape, a good copy. A new version of Mayhews London Labour & The London Poor with a new introduction. 600 grams.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 512 pages. 7.60x5.10x1.10 inches. In Stock.

vg/vg, lgt shelf wear. Illustrated by drawings. reprint edition. Binding is hc.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 512 pages. 7.60x5.10x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Spring Bpoks, London, 1969. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good, clean unmarked text. Previous owners signature inside cover. Jacket spine faded. Jacket has shelf wear. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #020732.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Thus. Type: Book 1st printing. DJ has a sun faded spine, otherwise as new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardback boon (434 pages)illustrated with black and white drwings. Second printing. Dust jacket in protective sleeve shows moderate scuffing/soiling - inscription written on front endpaper. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-D-TS-L) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Unread condition. No slipcase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. First Thus. NO DUSTJACKET. B&W illustrations. 336 pages. No dustjacket. Red hardback binding with some wear to boards' edges and corners. Moderately colour-faded lighter red spine with black titles. Moderately yellowed page-edges o/w pages clean.

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Illustrated Edition. brown hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto 10.5"x8"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). illustrated endpapers. 264p. 4 appendices. 8 pages of glossy full color plates. 100 b&w vintage illustrations. english history. english literature. social science. criminology. true crime. history of london. ~ Henry Mayhew's brilliantly observed record of London's poor in the middle of the nineteenth century has deservedly become a classic. He was the first writer to reveal to the comfortable and secure citizens of his own generation another London of which they were unaware. Disraeli's 'two nations' were never in starker contrast than in the capital itself. His work has lost none of its relevance and importance for the present day. It reminds us of what life was like for thousands in the greatest city of the world, and remains a vital document for historical understanding or any kind of social perspective. London Labour and the London Poor was based on a series of letters which Mayhew wrote for the Morning Chronicle in 1849~50. During the course of his investigations he discerned the numerous sub~cultures that existed among the poor, and described often in minute detail the occupations and preoccupations of the multifarious tribes who lived in the rookeries and tenements of the east end, and worked in the streets and the sweat~shops of Whitechapel, Limehouse and Wapping, of Shadwell, Rotherhithe and the Ratcliff Highway. Here to the life are many of Dickens' seamier characters. His story is one which tells of a deadly struggle for existence, always enlightened by compassion and often with humour. There was no welfare state, no safety net for the unemployed, the unfit or the disabled; life confronted one with the starkest choice ~ either survival, or the workhouse to which many preferred death. But all was not doom and gloom; London, even Mayhew's half of it, was in many ways a more vital and colourful city than it is today. The editor has selected a cross~section from Mayhew's immense work, and presents it here accompanied for the first time by many contemporary black~and~white illustrations and eight pages of colour. 'Do you read the Morning Chronicle? Do you devour those marvellous revelations of the inferno of misery, of wretchedness, that is smouldering under our feet? We live in a mockery of Christianity that, with the thought of its hypocrisy, makes me sick. We know nothing of this terrible life that is about us ~ us, in our smug respectability. To read of the sufferings of one class, and the avarice, the tyranny, the pocket cannibalism of the other, makes one almost wonder that the world should go on . 'I send you the Chronicle of yesterday. You will read therein what I think you will agree to be one of the most beautiful records of the nobility of the poor; of those whom our jaunty legislators know nothing . For comprehensiveness of purpose and minuteness of detail they [Mayhew's letters] have never been approached. He will cut his name deep.' ~Douglas Jerrold, writing to a friend in February, 1850, about Mayhew's Chronicle letters.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 360 pp, illustrations. Dj rubbed and scuffed, edgewear. Boards have light wear to extremities. Leaves a little yellowed.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 12mo, wrappers printed in two colors, 32pp. Fine advertising illustration on rear cover, showing these cloth mills in Gloucestershire. A good+ copy.

VG/VG . dj has been covered in full plastic adhesive sleeve. dj has a few missing notches and crumpling/rubbing, but otherwise well-protected. ex libris with stamps cancels and plate to ffep. text and illusttrations are clean and tidy. all pages present. not. reprint on 1851 classic title, made up of accounts of london life from the lips of its inhabitants - top to bottom. with appropriate drawings of the characters. check out the rhubard and spice seller at page 129!

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 343 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.78 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp xvii, 535. An As New slipcase supplied. 1st printing. Small ink mark to lower board.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 285 pages. 8.60x5.50x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. GEORGE CRUICKSHANK (illustrator). 1st Edition. 64pp. 12mo. plus the Publisher's splendid Christmas Catalogue for 1849 (24pp) Bound in card boards covered in watered silk stamped with gold title, device and price of 2/6d. A very substantial sum then. Internally the diary feature is unused and blank. There is a former owner's name to the head of the title page with the date 1849 in ink. The splendid pates are etched by Henry Vixetelly. The frontis. plate is folded concertina wise and is 16 inches long and beautifully hand-coloured. Titled "A new Court of Queens Bench" and then below 'As it ought to be - or - The ladies trying a contemptible Scoundrel for a "Breach of Promise" '. It portrays three Lady Judges on the bench and a Jury all of women. A lovely item from Victoria's reign and RARE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 253 pages. 8.60x5.50x0.79 inches. In Stock.

See his entry, and those of his brother and Kenney, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Twenty-two lines of text, addressed to 'C. L. Kenney Esq' and signed 'Aug: Mayhew'. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Begins: 'Dear Charlie/ Of course, we have to act under legal guidance. I will submit your letter to Mr Clare, for his opinion, but do not make yourself too sure of receiving the legacy, as your son's guardian.' He will submit Kenney's letter to Clare, but the matter having been discussed, 'the opinion was rather plainly stated, that the legacy must be invested for the benefit of the infant, & kept at interest until he reached his 21st year, the legacy being intended for the benefit of the infant, & the non-carrying out of that intention being at the risk of the Trustees of the will.'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

16x10 cm. Original gilt-stamped cloth, front hinge gone. Moderate wear and soiling. 64, 24 pp., hand-colored folding frontispiece plate. This overtly racist plate, which measures 16 x 41 cm, is entitled "Probable effects of over female emigration, or, Importing the fair sex from the Savage Islands in consequence of exporting all our own to Australia !!!!!" There is also a short essay expounding on this prospective shortage of native born English women. This is the deluxe issue of this almanac, with cloth binding and hand-colored plate. The issue in boards contains the plate uncolored.