WEST END PEOPLE : A NOVEL.
by WILDEBLOOD, Peter, 1923-1999 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1958). First edition. Wildeblood is best-known for his "Against the Law" (1955) - an account of his imprisonment for homosexuality which led more or less directly to the Wolfenden Report and decriminalisation - but he appears here in much lighter vein with an amusing novel of Soho life - gang warfare interferes with one of the area's staple industries and Cora and the working girls are obliged to found the National Youth Movement for the Prevention of Hooliganism in Soho (NYMPHS for short). Crown 8vo (20cm). 192pp. Original turquoise boards, lettered in silver; lightly marked; edges and prelims somewhat spotted; "Supplied for the Public Service" crown stamp on lower edge, but a good copy in the Charles King dust-jacket - the jacket lightly worn, slightly nicked, and a little marked and spotted - but complete and striking still.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45824
- Title
- WEST END PEOPLE : A NOVEL.
- Author
- WILDEBLOOD, Peter, 1923-1999 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1958).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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