ISBN: 9780575001183 - devil's mill (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp.159. Publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the front pastedown and free endpaper reading 'file copy.' Fiction. The author's first novel. A story of cruelty and hardship set against the historical backdrop of eighteenth century Derbyshire cotton mills when children suffered from Poor Law Institutions; discrimination which sent them to work in mills at the mercy of their employers. Jacket illustration by Robert Hales showing a boy on horseback arriving at a mill against a bleak landscape with a black and red sky. Fine in fine dust jacket.…