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Rare and modern books

Parker, Tony

Red Hill: A Mining Community

William Heinemann Ltd, 1986

24.00 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1986
ISBN
0434577715
Place of printing
London
Author
Parker, Tony
Publishers
William Heinemann Ltd
Size
9.5 x 6.25 inches
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
Miners' Strike, 1984-5, North-east England, Politics
Cover description
Near Fine
Binding description
Hard Cover
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper - otherwise 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Six months after the miners' strike of 1984-5, the author visited the north-east of England where he interviewed people on both sides of the dispute - miners, their wives, Union officials, policemen, shopkeepers, young people, Coal Board officials, schoolteachers and many others. This vivid social documents sets out their words. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.