Lancashire under the Hammer.

Bowker (B.)

Lancashire under the Hammer.

[Second printing.]

Description: one leaf with top corner folded, pp.128, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip with paper label, dustjacket chipped with browned backstrip panel, good

Publication Details: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928

Notes: The copy of Lancashire-born broadcaster Alistair Cooke, with his ownership inscription to flyleaf dated 1972 and his posthumous library label to facing pastedown.An account of the depression experienced by the cotton trade in the county. Its opening line: 'I was born with the sour smell of tape size in my nostrils'.

Bibliography: (Woolmer 157)

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