Growing Up Poor In London.
£15.00
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton.
Place
London
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 208 pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has chips at head and tail of spine. A little wear to extremities and darkening of top edge; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Account of childhood life in the East End of London during the early twentieth century, by Louis Heren (1919-95), journalist. His father was a printer on The Times and Heren worked his way up on that paper to become a foreign correspondent, before serving as Deputy Editor, 1973-81.
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