Keep Smiling Through: Home Front, 1939-45 de Briggs, Susan - 1977-09-26

Fontana / Collins, London, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. introduced by Vera Lynn. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs,, illustrations, cartoons and advertisements, with the occasional colour photograph all contemporaneous. Colour illustrated card cover with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. "Keep Smiling Through is a unique record, compiled exclusively from contemporary pictures and publications, everyday life in wartime Britain." -- from the rear panel blurb. A little creasing to the corner and rubbing of the book edges and panels. Light age toning and scattered foxing to the text edges. Previous owners name to the right-hand corner of the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7-256 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation,… Leer más

Fontana / Collins, London, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. introduced by Vera Lynn. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs,, illustrations, cartoons and advertisements, with the occasional colour photograph all contemporaneous. Colour illustrated card cover with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. "Keep Smiling Through is a unique record, compiled exclusively from contemporary pictures and publications, everyday life in wartime Britain." -- from the rear panel blurb. Nice clean copy, no damage to describe, no allocations. This is the first softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7-256 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations.… Leer más

Paperback. Very Good.

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1977-09-26. Paperback. Very Good. 1.7986 in x 24.5813 in x 19.5851 in.

Fontana/Collins, 1976. Softcover. Good. Corners bumped; traces of use.

(Subject: World War II - Home Front) Creased card covers, well used, but good study of contemporary popular culture. The Home Front 1939-45. A very well illustrated account with contemporary photographs, cartoons and advertisements, all relating the attitudes and recollections of the British Home Front in WWII. Includes The War Effort; the Allies; the Restrictions. Some of the colour plates are reproductions of paintings by official war artists Stanley Spencer, Laura Knight, Edward Ardizzione and Michael Ford. (Published: 1976) (Publisher: Fontana) (ISBN: 0006343171) (Pagination: 256pp, colour & b/w photos & illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX