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Sociology and Social Policy (Signed by Author)
by Townsend, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0713907800
- ISBN 13
- 9780713907803
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Allen Lane, 1975. Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and slight bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to ends of sunned spine. 371pp. Very detailed study on social policy and where sociology might begin to contribute towards the standing and reformulation of that policy. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 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.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9 x 5.5 inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012892
- Title
- Sociology and Social Policy (Signed by Author)
- Author
- Townsend, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0713907800
- ISBN 13
- 9780713907803
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Poverty, Social Inequality
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics and Current Affairs; Sociology;
- Size
- 9 x 5.5 inches
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