Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
by Housley, Herbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1874718288
- ISBN 13
- 9781874718284
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press, 1998. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp. Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 9.25 x 6.25 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013556
- Title
- Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
- Author
- Housley, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1874718288
- ISBN 13
- 9781874718284
- Publisher
- The Hallamshire Press
- Place of Publication
- Sheffield
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Iron, Steel, Foundries, History, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; Company and Union History; Biography - Engineering / Science;
- Size
- 9.25 x 6.25 inches
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