NEWSOM, John. Out of the Pit (signed)
NEWSOM, John. Out of the Pit: A challenge to the comfortable. With a preface by The Lord Archbishop of York. Oxford: Blackwell. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the scintillating dust jacket, uncredited. This copy inscribed by the author to the Shakespearean scholar, Arthur Percival Rossiter, who was an academic at Durham University at the time of publication—Newsom was meanwhile the Director of the Community Service Council for County Durham. With four striking photographic plates. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the corners just a trifle bumped. The contents clean and bright, some light toning from paper quality, with a handful of pencil annotations—presumably by Rossiter—to margins. The dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net), a little toned across all panels, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed, with more pencil annotations briefly to the rear flap. A handsome copy.
An explosive albeit brief account of the problem of unemployment post-Depression, with a focus on ‘the Unemployed of the Distressed Areas’, i.e. the North. Newsom’s many years working for the County Durham council allowed him to see first-hand the inescapable poverty such areas endured. His answer is not a thorough economic doctrine, nor a push for one political party over another, but a call to arms peoples of all classes, professions, nationalities to come together to support their individual societies and communities—anarcho-syndicalism, eh? Uncommon inscribed.
NEWSOM, John. Out of the Pit: A challenge to the comfortable. With a preface by The Lord Archbishop of York. Oxford: Blackwell. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the scintillating dust jacket, uncredited. This copy inscribed by the author to the Shakespearean scholar, Arthur Percival Rossiter, who was an academic at Durham University at the time of publication—Newsom was meanwhile the Director of the Community Service Council for County Durham. With four striking photographic plates. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the corners just a trifle bumped. The contents clean and bright, some light toning from paper quality, with a handful of pencil annotations—presumably by Rossiter—to margins. The dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net), a little toned across all panels, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed, with more pencil annotations briefly to the rear flap. A handsome copy.
An explosive albeit brief account of the problem of unemployment post-Depression, with a focus on ‘the Unemployed of the Distressed Areas’, i.e. the North. Newsom’s many years working for the County Durham council allowed him to see first-hand the inescapable poverty such areas endured. His answer is not a thorough economic doctrine, nor a push for one political party over another, but a call to arms peoples of all classes, professions, nationalities to come together to support their individual societies and communities—anarcho-syndicalism, eh? Uncommon inscribed.
NEWSOM, John. Out of the Pit: A challenge to the comfortable. With a preface by The Lord Archbishop of York. Oxford: Blackwell. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the scintillating dust jacket, uncredited. This copy inscribed by the author to the Shakespearean scholar, Arthur Percival Rossiter, who was an academic at Durham University at the time of publication—Newsom was meanwhile the Director of the Community Service Council for County Durham. With four striking photographic plates. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the corners just a trifle bumped. The contents clean and bright, some light toning from paper quality, with a handful of pencil annotations—presumably by Rossiter—to margins. The dust jacket unclipped (3s 6d net), a little toned across all panels, the corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed, with more pencil annotations briefly to the rear flap. A handsome copy.
An explosive albeit brief account of the problem of unemployment post-Depression, with a focus on ‘the Unemployed of the Distressed Areas’, i.e. the North. Newsom’s many years working for the County Durham council allowed him to see first-hand the inescapable poverty such areas endured. His answer is not a thorough economic doctrine, nor a push for one political party over another, but a call to arms peoples of all classes, professions, nationalities to come together to support their individual societies and communities—anarcho-syndicalism, eh? Uncommon inscribed.