Introduction John Rosenberg (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. New York: George Braziller, 1963. 560 pages. No illustrations. Chronology; Selected Bibliography. Chosen from Ruskin's writings: Art, Architecture, Society, Solitude, Self. Clean throughout; tight binding; mild wear to edges of the dustjacket. First Printing. quarter cloth. Very Good/Very Good. thick 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. modern library edition. 798 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. modern library edition. 798 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Reprint Edition. CLASSIC: NEW First Dover Reprint Edition (1968) Later Printing (c. 2010), NEW handsomely-designed-illustrated gloss-laminated card-stock covers, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, NEW perfect bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTNE interiors handsomely presenting the original texts on EXCELLENT acid-free archival paper * Volume I (0-486-21934-8) London Street Folk (Part I): 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.88", 0.84 kg, xvi+495 (510) pp. Volume II (0-486-21935-6) London Street Folk (Part II): 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.98", 0.82 kg, 512 pp. Volume III (0-486-21936-4) London Street Folk (Part III, Concluded): Cyclopedia of Conditions of Earning: 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.82", 0.74 kg, 444 pp. Volume IV (0-486-21937-2) Those That Will Not Work &c: 6.50" x 10.0" x 1.00", 0.86 kg, 504 pp. The Complete 4-Volume Set: 6.50" x 10.0" x 3.68", 3.26 kg, 1970 pp. * ABOUT THIS SET: The classical study (here presented complete in 4 volumes) of the culture of poverty & the criminal classes in 19th century London. This Dover Edition (Orig. 1968) is an unabridged republication of the work as published by Griffin, Bohn, & Company in 1861-1862, to which has been added a new Introduction by John D. Rosenberg. This is the first & possibly the greatest sociological study of the subculture of poverty in 19th-century London. In Mayhew's own words, it is the first book "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves, providing a literal description of their labor, their earnings, their trials, their suffering, in their own 'unvarnished' language." Mayhew invented 'oral history' a century before the term was coined, & was the original explorer of a class--& an aspect of London--with which polite literate society was only familiar through the pages of novels. Mayhew walked 100s of miles of London Streets in the 1840s & 1850s, gathering 1000s of pages of testimony from costermongers & street hawkers, thieves, swindlers & pickpockets, prostitutes & vagrants, rag pickers, street performers, &c. W/ Victorian dedication & energy, he uncovered & codified data on the modern urban proletariat. The vast scope of his undertaking & the minuteness of detail make his work a major repository of information on 19th-century London & its poorer citizens.These compellingly readable 4 volumes have long been a basic source-book for sociologists, historians, criminologists. The men, women, & children who tell their stories in these pages are often all but indistinguishable from the characters of a Dickens novel. As Thackeray wrote, Mayhew provides us w/ "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous & pathetic, so exciting & terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE individually wraps & custom packages ea. of the four volumes of this exceptional volume w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment to all U.S. locations via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge of $14.00. We ship internationally via postal regulation Mandated USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at below-cost rates quoted on request.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Tight clean books with moderate shelfwear; volumes 2 and three are library withdrawals. 492 pp; 511 pp; 442 pp; 504 pp.

Hardcover. First printing. Octavo, xii, 465 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is white with grey and black print. Dust jacket has short tears at spine ends, peripheral toning, soiling. Price unclipped: "$10.95". Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and white cloth to boards; light wear to spine caps, spotting to white cloth. Text block has blue tinted top edge, inscription in ink on front endpaper, light tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1406756. FP New Rockville Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Touches of shelfwear to volume 1; otherwise tight and bright in rubbed covers. 492 pp; 511 pp; 442 pp; 504 pp.