Hackney

1943 · ref. 1243 — HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK Edition: 1st. Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: Early 1940s Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers. Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth black title to spine. Very slight bumps minimal shelf wear & fading to spine and edges. GD Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing bearded and top-hatted gentleman working at a typewriter. Black and white on blue ground now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of 6/-net. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with some chips and tears minor losses. Foxed overall but still complete. ACC Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean crisp tight and bright with no reading wear no marks tanning or other visible faults to text. Minor age to end papers margins and edges. VG. Illustrations: A number of b/w cartoons and vignettes within text throughout. Pages: 136 pp. text. x pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear. Description: This book is certainly an auto-biography with a difference. In a series of episodes the author describes his life from his earliest years as the youngest son of a village glass-blower to his old age as a somewhat disreputable and decidedly bogus centenarian. But whether he takes up engineering sculpture or music whether he attempts to return to nature or takes a cycling holiday or becomes a porter at a London terminus he is certain to find himself in some absurd and nonsensical situation. This work introduces several characters which will enrich that nonsense literature which is peculiarly Englands the world of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. The book has no meaning no moral and no conclusion. Its aim is only to amuse. A NEAR VG volume with minor age and wear in poor but protected dust jacket. Jarrolds hardcover