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PATTERSON, A. TEMPLE: : SOUTHAMPTON: A biography

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1970.

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UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to acetate protected dw/dj.Glossy,protected, wrap-around scenic b/w photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - a small closed tear, sealed by protective acetate - to top edge.Top edge lightly aged/darkened and sporadically spotted/foxed,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Clean, publisher's original,plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/djm1st edn,2-252pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters,2 b/w maps,16pp contemporary b/w illus/plates/photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendix,notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents+illustrations lists/tables, acknowledgements,2 b/w maps and an author introduction. This book is something more than an ordinary town history,for Southampton is something more than an ordinary town.It has had a long,important and varied past as a port,a fortress,a fashionable resort and then as a port again: and in the traces of this past are still written large in its streets and buildings. But it is not merely an ancient and historic city,not even just Britain's greatest passenger port,it is also a paramount example of how a town and its inhabitants can move with the times, making the most of their historical heritage and overcoming notable times of stress and depression.For Southampton is still living in its finest hour (then 1970).It has always been in England's frontline,against Spaniards,French and Germans.In the last war it was the cradle of the Spitfire and the springboard of the invasion of Europe,and from that war it emerged battered,stunned,half-ruined but unbowed.'We shall build anew. . .' declared its leading newspaper on the morrow of its most devastating blitz.That gallant pledge has proved to be an understatement of what Southampton has done in the last twenty years,for its amazing recovery has gone well beyond even a Phoenix-like resurrection of one of the most bomb-shattered towns in Britain to its former state.The new Southampton that has not so much taken the place of the old as blended with it or absorbed it,is a regional capital rising to strengths it did not know before; modern,attractive, splendidly equipped and adorned with fine modern buildings. The Sotonians may not perhaps have the sharply defined and striking charactersitics of the inhabitants of some of the more celebrated or publicised parts of Britain.But they are a quiet,dogged, courageous and dependable people; a very British people,who cope with things and get them done without a very great deal of noise or self-advertisement.They have in the post-war years crowned their long history with an achievement which the whole country should know and of which it should be proud.It is that history and that achievement which are set out in these pages.The author is emeritus Professor at the University of Southampton.The 2nd volume,after uniform volume; NOTTINGHAM,in a planned series,to include READING,GUILDFORD,CHELTENHAM, NORWICH,NEWCASTLE and LEICESTER - all of which,at this publication date - are in preparation.Meanwhile,an uncommon title and edn from the series. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,Demy 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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