Author: KILNER, GEOFFREY
Title: Joe Burkinshaw's Progress
Description: London, Methuen Children's Books. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0416868606). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Acs, Laszlo. A VG + unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. Based on historical incident which brings alive 19th century life. For Joe Burkinshaw there was no choice, at the age of seven he had to join his brother working in the coal mine with no hope of escaping from the darkness, the toil and the danger and through the years of unhappiness during which he sees his brother killed and his mother crippled, he sets his mind on becoming free. Through an accident he finds himself bound as a servant to the mine owner but he flees and goes to Sheffield where he is press ganged into work at a steel works, then he flees again and ends up with a hermit and they live by poaching. Illustrated with drawings by Laszlo Acs. NOT EX LIB C3E. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Juvenilia, 19th Century, Coal Mine, Steel Works, Hermit, Poacher 0416868606 Acs, Laszlo


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