Mother Hubbard by Richards, W. E - 1946-01-01

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1946 (1945)* Publisher: John Gifford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Olive grey cloth, gilt title to spine. Corners slightly bumped but no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Rear board has slight crease. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Mother Hubbard against a ?pit? landscape, yellow and white text to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 8/6 net. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 292 pp. text. ii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: "Mother Hubbard lived in a Company house in the rows of a colliery village. Here under the shadow of the Pit tip, she bore five sons. Life in the Rows was raw and rude, lusty or stiff with virtue, a contrast of harsh lights and sombre shadows. Against this background her sons stumbled and fought their way to maturity. This is the story of the fight of Mother Hubbard made for the bodies of her five sons; of moses, saved from the gallows; of Enoch, bowling at Bramall Lane; of John, the coming miners' leader; of Dave, whose nimble wits coined money; of her adopted daughter, Hilda, who took a short cut from the Rows to the Music Hall; of Abby, the artist who went his own secret way.* A NEAR FINE text reprint copy with some minor faults in a GD+ dust jacket.*