Author: HOCTOR, KATHLEEN Title: Diamomd of Hillgate
Description: Stockport, Reword Publishers. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 0955608805) Soft Cover, 8 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 263pp. Social historical novel set in Stockport in the mid-19th century just after the end of the Crimean War. It focuses on Henry Blackstaffe, a master of Stockport's hatting trade who is forced to take on a partner, Jordan Diamond to avoid bankruptcy. The workers do not like the new machinery he iintroduces and his new partner, engaged to a beautiful and wealthy woman also attempts to form a relationship to a female employee far below his own social station. Extremely scarce. Very Good (+).
Keywords: Fiction, Stockport, Hat-Making History 0955608805
Price: GBP 25.00 = appr. US$ 35.70 Seller: Godley Books
- Book number: 028765
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