with a foreword by Victor Gollancz
The first sound in the mornings was the clumping of the mill girls' clogs down the cobbled street.
The Road to Wigan Pier with a foreword by Victor Gollancz
Gollancz / Left Book Club, 1937.
First edition. Limp orange cloth wrappers lettered in black. Illustrated with 32 photographs. A very good copy, with slight fading to the spine and foxing to the edges. Previous owner's pencil name on the end paper.
This copy, which was not for sale to the public, precedes the publisher's trade edition.
"When you see the unemployment figures quoted at two millions, it is fatally easy take this as meaning that two million people are out of work and the rest of the population is comparatively comfortable."
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