|
|
|
Remember, the stated price is all you have to pay - free worldwide p&p / s&h - full details/upgrades here
|
|
Charity Begins at Home - Colin Watson
1968 English hardback 1st edition, first impression, Eyre, London A VG++ book in VG++ unclipped dust jacket Book is without inscriptions or stamps Solid, clean and tight The jacket is clean, bright with only some very light edge wear A Flaxborough tale A rare title and a nice example For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
Buy Secure -
Enquire
|
|
|
Broomsticks Over Flaxborough - Colin Watson
1972 British hardback 1st edition, first issue, Eyre & Methuen, London A VG book in VG+ price clipped dustcover No names, inscriptions or stamps etc Tightly bound and square, bump to spine top resulting in cut to book and jacket The jacket has some wear to extremities Inspector Purbright wonders why people are dancing naked and then looks into what has all the hallmarks of a ritual killing A clean copy of a scarce book that looks a lot nicer than it may sound, and very cheap! For Sale at £17 (approx $28) *P9 - free delivery worldwide ! |
Buy Secure -
Enquire
or Add to Cart |
|
|
Snobbery with Violence - Colin Watson
1971 English hardcover 1st edition, first impression, Eyre, London A VG++ book in VG++ unclipped dust jacket No names, inscriptions or stamps etc Tightly bound and square, clean contents and cloth The jacket has no loss just one closed tear to spine crease The author looks at the history and development of mystery fiction and how the great authors reflected their times in the stories and characters An important and interesting book about the genre For Sale at £13 (approx $22) *P4 - free delivery worldwide ! |
Buy Secure -
Enquire
|
|
One simple fact of Victorian England which the inhabitants of a welfare state can appreciate only with difficulty is that life without money was literally hell. Pauperdom was a terror that haunted whole multitudes. It was the terminal stage of the illness of poverty and as real a possibility for the school teacher, the shopkeeper or the government clerk as for the seamstress or the furnaceman. Revivals of Victorian melodrama win easy laughs when the villain announces the foreclosing of a mortgage, but the audiences of the time would have been harrowed, not amused; they knew well what being evicted meant. 'Ruin' was not a quaint euphemism for a girl's first tumble into sexual experience; it was a word no stronger than was justified by a system of economic servitude, iron-banded with moral strictures, that submerged scores of thousands into prostitution. The most terrifying feature of being deprived, for whatever reason, of a means of livelihood was the high probability of the process being irreversible. Another phrase from the Victorians' vocabulary that evokes a superior smile today is 'station in life'. But it was a solemnly meaningful reference to what was felt to be a pre-ordained and permanent social structure. The optimists — and there were more of them about than pessimists - were convinced that things were getting a little better every day in every way for everybody, but only because society as a whole was allowed to progress slowly and steadily, undisturbed by any changing of places. Fortunes were to be made, of course, and men made them: sometimes in romantic circumstances, sometimes by dubious methods, most often by sheer diligence and the application of such advantages as technical education and ready capital. But the majority of people were to die very little richer than they had been born. They considered themselves fortunate if they achieved the modest ambition of always being able to 'pay their way1. |
site search how to order free delivery contact us
