Buy this book on-line DUNN**, NELL: : UP THE JUNCTIONLONDON.MACGIBBON & KEE,1963. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/GOOD.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.White lettered,pink+black photographic illustrated upper wrap and b/w publisher's
advert+critics' reviews to rear wrap.
Minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges, miniscule rubbing with reciprocal loss to corners and to head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Front+rear wraps minimally grubbed/marked considering the book's age.
3.5" vertical,closed tear to upper wrap's vertical edge towards crease of front inner flap of dw/dj,with a similar,longer
(7.25") closed tear to opposite edge, towards spine/backstrip,a small 1/2" closed tear to upper wrap's top edge,just
above the first letter N of author's surname; plus a 2" vertical,closed tear to
rear wrap, towards top 2" of spine/
backstrip's edge.Majority of any creasing is to both front+rear,top edges of dw/dj.
Reads horrifically,but is described honestly and fairly! Top+fore-edges very lightly aged; contents generally bright, tight and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Dark blue paper-covered bds with minimal marking and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and white eps with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps,front and rear.UK,slim 12mo (approx 7.3/4" tall - listed by others elsewhere as 8vo)HB+dw/dj,1st edn,13-110pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters,profuse b/w line illus by Susan Benson throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title+title pages, acknowledgements,contents list/table,
title separator page,and 2pp blanks to rear.
These scenes of London life (particularly
as it is lived in Battersea) have a few parallels in contemporary writing.
They are deft,observant and convey an immediacy of time and place which is uncanny and sometimes disturbing - like unexpectedly overhearing a conversation not intended for your ears.
The author has a superb gift for catching spoken idioms,and the characters observed in these pages - ton-up boys and their girls,clip-joint hostesses,old women, children - convey that caustic,ironic and compassionate feeling for life in a manner that vividly surpasses a limited vocabulary.A turn of phrase,a terse expression,frequently contains startling flashes of wit and poetry.
And Battersea,that teeming waste-land of brick south of the river,dominated by the four belching chimneys of its power station,has found its poet in Nell Dunn.
Since April 2013,aghain in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!
So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DUNN**, NELL: : UP THE JUNCTION. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, out-of-print books, fine bindings, rare books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |