1949 Back to the Local

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Illustrated with eighteen plates and one double-page image. Collated complete. A follow-up to his pre-war book The Local, this volume continues Gorham's observations on London pubs. A unique work of reference describing London pubs as they are today, from the point of view not of the sociologist or antiquary, but the man looking to have a drink. Written by Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham, an Irish journalist and broadcasting executive. Illustrated by Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children.