GARRETT, RICHARD — The Search for Prosperity: Emigration from Britain, 1815-1930
London: Wayland, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0853403163. 128 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Using contemporary accounts, vividly reconstructs the story of emigration from the British Isles - through the dark tunnel of the nineteenth century and into the happier conditions of the twentieth." - from dust jacket. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket bears light wear and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Search for Prosperity: Emigration from Britain, 1815-1930 British Emigrees. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .