Resultados de búsqueda: The Story Of Ulverston de Henry F Birkett

Titus Wilson & Son Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Moderate bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with light tanning to spine and edges.

GB: Titus Wilson (Kendal), 1949. Completely plain pale grey wrappesr now with moden title label on spine. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Bit bumped. . Paperback. VG-.

Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1949. 183 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - photographs, reproductions. "....(brings) together for the first time the many references to Ulverston in the local books of the last two-hundred years. With them there is muc h new and hitherto unpublished information, the whole being skilfully wrought into a continuous story. In it the growth of the town during eight-hundred years is traced, and the life of its people, their work and pleasure, their high-momen t s a n d t h eir troubles, revealed. The author feels he has written a social history, one that not only lets the reader see Ulverston, but lights up in a small degree the larger life of England of which the Story of Ulverston forms part." Cont en ts : Th e T ow n; Ancient History; The Seventeenth Century; The Empory of Furness; The Flowering; The Years Between; Victorian Ulverston; A New Century; The Wars Years and After; The Country-side. Very minor… Leer más