Mayhew Rubinstein (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt design to front boards, no dustjacket. 168pp. B/w frontispeice, full page b/w illustrations. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (66/3).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. dustwrapper much worn and torn, book itself sound and clean. Reissue of a work first published by Sylvan Press in 1947, based on Mayhew's 19th Century works. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Date unstated Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. // An uncommon first edition. In the original cloth binding. This intriguing volume comprises contemporary accounts of the lives of London street sellers in 1851, recorded first by Henry Mayhew and edited for this volume by Stanley Rubinstein. With twenty-five full page illustrations. Collated, complete. Mayhew, one of the co-founders of popular satirical magazine Punch, was an English journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He is well known for his influential survey of the city"s poor in his three-volume "London Labour and the London Poor", of which this book derives information from regarding primarily street sellers. Rubinstein was a British solicitor, novelist and historian. With an introduction on the social and historical context of London life by M. Dorothy George. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with a few handling marks to the boards and mild discolouration to the spine. Minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.