Social History from Dodman Books

London: Heinemann, 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition of this collection of Steinbeck's brilliantly written wartime despatches from the UK, Africa and Italy, which first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. Light marking to edge of block only rarely intruding onto pages. No inscriptions. Very smart… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Well produced and illustrated exercise in social history as related by the customers and owners of black barbers' shops in the US. In fine, clean, crisp and bright order throughout. Smart black boards with bright red titling to spine. Fine unclipped… Read more about this item

London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1909. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Discursive and entertaining memoirs of life on the road as a commercial traveller. Stock toned, moreso to endpapers, but in general all in good internal order. Some pencil notation to index and occasional pencil underlining. Attractive pictorial boards a little… Read more about this item

Reading: Co-Operative Wholesale Society, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Well illustrated regional co-operative movement history. Stock lightly toned but otherwise all in VG internal order. Blue boards lightly marked and a little worn, moreso to spine. 12mo. 134pp

Downham Market: Quaker Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Well written social history of Swaffham, Norfolk. Ex-lib with stamps to verso of title page and elsewhere, but in general good internal order nevertheless. Smart red boards with bright gilt tilting to spine. VG unclipped d/j, lightly worn to… Read more about this item

London: V&A Publications, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, well illustrated study in VG+ order throughout, bar light toning to page edges and some creasing to spine. 4to. 420pp

London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Owner's name neatly to fep. Black cloth heavily faded to front board. VG unclipped d/j, lightly toned and a little worn to edges. 8vo. x, 254pp

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The popular culture of the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. All in VG, clean and bright internal order. Minor wear only to card covers. 8vo. xxvii,… Read more about this item

New York: The Readers Club, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Readers Club compilation of Roughead's case reports, with foreword by Alexander Woollcott. Light toning to stock, but otherwise in VG, clean and bright order throughout. Corner fold to fep. Smart grey cloth, showing light wear only and faint trace of ring… Read more about this item

London: Calder & Boyars, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fascinating study of 'synne', lechery and lusting in and about the City of London from Roman to Cromwellian times. All in VG+ clean and bright internal order. Small mark to fep. Smart black boards with bright silver titling to… Read more about this item

London: Macdonald, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Well written history of Newgate and the dawn of prison reform. All in VG internal order with only light marking to edge of block. No inscriptions. Grey boards, a little dulled to edges, with bright gilt titling to spine. Good clipped d/j,… Read more about this item

Bletchley: Hatfield Books, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Curious clerics, most with a Buckinghamshire connection. All in VG, clean and bright internal order. Light bump to base of spine. Light wear only to card covers. 8vo. viii, 112pp

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All in VG order however, there is some highlighting and notation, so best regarded as a reading/working copy. Light wear only to smart purple boards. VG unclipped d/j. xii, 156pp

New York: Hill And Wang, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stater re-creates the desperate aristocratic world pf late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century Britain... in which incivility and moral turpitude held sway beneath a thin veneer of aristocratic manners." In near fine, clean and bright internal order. Small ink… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Remarkable account of the Jezreelites, a Gillingham-based sect, and its massive brick 'Jezreel's Tower' on Chatham Hill. Some spotting to endpapers, but otherwise all is in VG internal order. Pale green cloth a little dulled to edges with smart gilt-on-green titling to spine. Good clipped d/j, a little… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First volume of Archibald Allen's reminiscences and opinionated essays. Attractively illustrated. Occasional foxing but for the most part in good internal order. Dark orange cloth with gilt and black decoration and titling, a little bumped, worn to edges and lightly faded… Read more about this item

New York: Temple University Publcations, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The cultural significance and changing legend of Bunyan as shaped by the mass media and other cultural forces including poets such as Frost, Sandburg and Auden. Apart from some foxing and light toning to endpapers, all is in VG clean and… Read more about this item

Durham Mining Musuem, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reprint of account first published in 1813. All in VG order throughout. Ringbound sheets in card covers. Fold-out plan to front. 8vo. 28pp

London: Robert Hayes, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ND. 1928 (WorldCat). As you might guess from the title, Summers does not hold back in his assessment of all that is wrong with England between the wars. Alarmingly, much of it reads as if written by some of today's more extreme commentators.… Read more about this item

Oxford: Basel Blackwell, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All in VG internal order. Minor pencil notation to early margins. Light shelfwear to smart brown boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j, lightly faded to spine and now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. x, 336… Read more about this item