Travels of a London Schoolboy 1826-1830 Tapa dura - 1996

Hardback. Very Good.

Historical Publications Ltd, 01/04/1996 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

London: Historical Publications Ltd, 1996. Hardcover. Light wear to one edge of jacket; page block head is slightly marked. Pages are clean and sound, with clear content throughout. TS. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: Historical Publications, 1996. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Very good condition, clean throughout. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: Historical Publications, 1996. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 208pp. Frontispiece, 39 illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. Signed by both Tom Pocock and Marjorie Holder on the front free endpaper. ISBN 0948667354

Historical Publications Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0948667354 . Signed, with a personal inscr, to 1/2 title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

Historical Publications, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. jacket is a bit shelf rubbed and creased. damp marks and waviness on both book and jacket. light soiling and marks. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London England: Historical Publications Ltd, 1996. Hardback. First Edition. Travels of a London Schoolboy. Tiny piece of D/J. missing from top edge of spine. Tiny nip to edge of D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. In 1826, a boy, nealry twelve years old and living in Kilburn, picked up an old account book of his father's, and on the unusued pages began a diary which he was to keep for his lifetim. John Pocok, the son of a once prosperous builder in late-Georgian London, began his work just at a time when his father faced financial ruin from a micture of market forces and bad judgment. Poignantly he relates the comfort of a fine house and a busy social life, but also the long walks to Southwark to see his father in a debtors' prison. The young man walks everywhere - sometime astonishing distances - around London and even to Hastings. And he tells his story with perception, humour and with a fine eye for the detail of life in London. After the completion og his schooling and a series of ill-rewarded and… Leer más

Historical Publications, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket..

London : Historical Publications, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 208 p : ill., facsim., geneal. table, maps, ports ; 26 cm. ""Much of the London diary was published ... in 1980 as The Diary of a London Schoolboy, 1826-1830 ... Now this fuller edition includes John's account of his voyages ... and his young brother Lewis's voyage to Cape Town twelve years later ...""--p. 11; Includes index. Subjects: Pocock, John Thomas - 1814-1876 ; Diaries. Surgeons - Great Britain ; Diaries. Domestic life.