Rosen Michael and David Widgery (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rosen, Michael and David Widgery. The Chatto book of dissent. First edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket. Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong and tight. Red endpapers. 457pp. Edge of textblock dust-stained and a little tanned and foxed; contents clean and bright. This is an anthology of verbal protest, whether avowedly political or quietly subversive, against war, racism, slavery, chauvinism, censorship, injustice and oppression in all their guises. It ranges in place and time from the Ancient Egyptian Satire of the Trades to Vaclav Havel's Memorandum, in form from Chaucerian verse to Parisian graffiti, and embraces protest songs, radio broadcasts, the text of seditious posters and the transcripts of trials; Charlotte Bronte and Lenny Bruce, Aesop and Aborigines. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…