Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850 A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
by James, Louis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. Hardback. Dust jacket has been poorly price-clipped, edges are worn with nicks in a couple of places, spine sunned; brown cloth boards with sharp corners and bright gilt titles on the spine; foxing to pages but internally clean and free from annotation; binding tight. A very nice, tight copy with no signs of previous ownership. An authoritative study on the effects of the influx of cheap mass literature between 1830 and 1850 on the tastes of the working class.; 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches; 226 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52872
- Title
- Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850 A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
- Author
- James, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1963
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Walden Books
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About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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