BURKE, Thomas. The Real East End
BURKE, Thomas. The Real East End. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to spine, in the remarkable Pearl Binder wraparound dust jacket, who illustrates the volume with excellent lithographs throughout. A good copy, the cloth is clean but the boards are gently bumped, corners and tips pushed. The binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean throughout, textblock edges a trifle spotted with a handful of singular spots and marks. The dust jacket unclipped, price struck through with new ink price. Most corners and edges chipped, nicked, rubbed with a few small closed tears. Loss to spine head only, and striking nonetheless.
A vivid, realist yet romantic portrait of East London by a Londoner through and through, dubbed by some as ‘the Londoner of Londoners’. Both Burke’s fiction and non-fiction portrays London as character and it appears here with grit and charm. Married to the text is Pearl Binder’s lithography. Binder was equally charmed by the East End, moving there from Manchester. The illustrations depict an overcast, smoky, bustling and yet charming city.
BURKE, Thomas. The Real East End. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to spine, in the remarkable Pearl Binder wraparound dust jacket, who illustrates the volume with excellent lithographs throughout. A good copy, the cloth is clean but the boards are gently bumped, corners and tips pushed. The binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean throughout, textblock edges a trifle spotted with a handful of singular spots and marks. The dust jacket unclipped, price struck through with new ink price. Most corners and edges chipped, nicked, rubbed with a few small closed tears. Loss to spine head only, and striking nonetheless.
A vivid, realist yet romantic portrait of East London by a Londoner through and through, dubbed by some as ‘the Londoner of Londoners’. Both Burke’s fiction and non-fiction portrays London as character and it appears here with grit and charm. Married to the text is Pearl Binder’s lithography. Binder was equally charmed by the East End, moving there from Manchester. The illustrations depict an overcast, smoky, bustling and yet charming city.
BURKE, Thomas. The Real East End. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to spine, in the remarkable Pearl Binder wraparound dust jacket, who illustrates the volume with excellent lithographs throughout. A good copy, the cloth is clean but the boards are gently bumped, corners and tips pushed. The binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean throughout, textblock edges a trifle spotted with a handful of singular spots and marks. The dust jacket unclipped, price struck through with new ink price. Most corners and edges chipped, nicked, rubbed with a few small closed tears. Loss to spine head only, and striking nonetheless.
A vivid, realist yet romantic portrait of East London by a Londoner through and through, dubbed by some as ‘the Londoner of Londoners’. Both Burke’s fiction and non-fiction portrays London as character and it appears here with grit and charm. Married to the text is Pearl Binder’s lithography. Binder was equally charmed by the East End, moving there from Manchester. The illustrations depict an overcast, smoky, bustling and yet charming city.