Roads to Ruin~E. S. Turner~1966~Penguin Paperback~First Edition~First Printing~Rare~Good Condition~Free Shipping

Roads to Ruin~E. S. Turner~1966~Paperback~Rare~Good Condition~Free Shipping.

This first edition Penguin paperback is in good condition. Some cover wear. One stamp on inside band cover. See photos. No other markings. Binding good.

Ernest Sackville Turner OBE (17 November 1909 – 6 July 2006) was an English freelance journalist and writer who wrote 20 published books, including Boys Will Be Boys (Michael Joseph, 1948), The Phoney War on the Home Front (St. Martin's Press, 1961), and What The Butler Saw (Penguin, 1962), and contributing to the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, and regularly to the English satirical weekly magazine Punch (the latter for more than 50 years).

Roads to Ruin: A Shocking History of Social Progress (1950), on the upper class's "disgraceful rearguard action…" against reforms such as "abolition of child chimney sweeps and the repeal of laws under which convicted criminals could be hung, drawn and quartered." - From Wikipedia

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