Author: NORTON, GRAHAM Title: London Before the Blitz 1906-40: From the Coming of the Motor-Car to the Outbreak of War
Description: UK: Macdonald, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 035603433x. 127 pages. "Examines the years which saw the beginning of our modern world of technology and the mass-media: the mass-production of motor-cars; the first civilian air travel; the birth of broadcasting; the arrival of the 'talkies'; the rise of the popular newspapers... This record of London in the era just before our own is lavishly illustrated with over 100 photographs, some contemporary and others specially commissioned views of key buildings of the time." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; London Before the Blitz 1906-40: From the Coming of the Motor-Car to the Outbreak of War. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 035603433x 1906 40: History
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- Book number: 734a7503