England de Scruton, Roger

2000 Chatto & Windus First UK edition. Hardback. Paper browning, else a very good copy in dustwrapper.

Hardback. Very Good.

std as cover black txt: Chatto & Windus, 2000. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Condition good with dust jacket. ref ZKVQ Review Following in the footsteps of distinguished books such as Peter Laslett's The World We Have Lost and Julian Barnes' England, England, Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy is a deeply personal lament for the disappearance of the England of his childhood. "Having been famous for their stoicism, their decorum, their honesty, their gentleness and their sexual puritanism, the English now subsist in a society in which those qualities are no longer honoured, a society of people who regard long-term loyalties with cynicism, and whose response to misfortune is to look around for someone to sue". The result is a deeply personal account of Scruton's own life, his complex relationship with his disillusioned socialist father, who "loved what was local, collegial and attached to the land", and a wide-ranging historical and philosophical meditation on… Leer más

Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1856192512. 2000, clean copy, with dustjacket, feint toning to pages, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 2000. Hardcover.

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1981 VG+/VG+. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a little rubbed & bumped) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked); pp. 224. A very good copy of his first novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

London : Chatto & Windus, 2000. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed copy. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 270p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; National characteristics, English. Civilization. Manners and customs. England Social life and customs. England Civilization. England Social life and customs.