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Blazers, Badges and Boaters: Pictorial History of School Uniform
by Rae, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0906619254
- ISBN 13
- 9780906619254
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About This Item
Scope International Ltd, 1990-02-19. First Edition. Hardcover. F/F/F. Box 70 HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Scope Books* Binding and cover condition: Light Blue cloth, Silver title to spine. No Bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £12.95, Humourous design to front cover, protected in clear film jacket, probably from new. FINE,* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, sepiatone photographic end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright, no inscriptions or annotations, FINE* Illustrations: B/W photos and print reproductions throughout.* Pages: 173 pp. text. xix pp. Glossary, Bibliography, & Index.* Synopsis :- In a subject as apparently innocent and functional as school uniform lies a history of tradition, secret codes of conduct, ritual and hierarchy. This book comprehensively surveys not just the ""fossilised fashion"" of schoolwear, but also the privileged history of our unique English public schools and recalls the rich social history found in the charity schools, military establishments, grammar schools and the non-conformist Quaker schools. This is far more than a history of uniform, it is an insight into our formidable education system which has nurtured the belief that ""the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton"". A FINE copy in AS NEW condition, seemingly protected by library cover since new.* 0
Synopsis
Franz Kafka was born in 1833 to a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family. His father, the self-made proprietor of a wholesale haberdashery business, was a domineering man whose approbation Franz continually struggled to win. The younger Kafka's feelings of inadequacy and guilt form the background of much of his work and are made explicit in his "Letter to His Father" (excerpted in this volume), which was written in 1919 but never sent. Kafka was educated in the German language schools of Prague and at the city's German University, where in 1908 he took a law degree. Literature, however, remained his sole passion. At this time he became part of a literary circle that included Franz Werfel, Martin Buber, and Kafka's close friend Max Brod. Encouraged by Brod, Kafka published the prose collection Observations in 1913. Two years later his story "The Stoker" won the Fontaine prize. In 1916 he began work on The Trial and between this time and 1923 produced three incomplete novels as well as numerous sketches and stories. In his lifetime some of his short works did appear: The Judgment (1916), The Metamorphosis (1916), The Penal Colony (1919), and The Country Doctor (1919). Before his death of tuberculosis in 1924, Kafka had charged Max Brod with the execution of his estate, ordering Brod to burn the manuscripts. With the somewhat circular justification that Kafka must have known his friend could not obey such an order, Brod decided to publish Kafka's writings. To this act of "betrayal" the world owes the preservation of some of the most unforgettable and influential literary works of our century.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4221
- Title
- Blazers, Badges and Boaters: Pictorial History of School Uniform
- Author
- Rae, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0906619254
- ISBN 13
- 9780906619254
- Publisher
- Scope International Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Horndean
- Date Published
- 1990-02-19
- Pages
- 224
- X weight
- g
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