Portrait of Liverpool by Howard Channon, 3rd edition, 1976, Vintage Illustrated Topography Hardback

Portrait of Liverpool by Howard Channon, 3rd edition, 1976, published by Robert Hale and Company, London. Hardback, 231 pages

This vintage hardback is illustrated with black and white photos.
It is in good condition - the original dust-jacket has some creases on the corners and some discolouration. There is a small tear on the front flap.
Otherwise there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.

22.5cm x 14cm x 3cm approx.

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Blurb reads:
When the world looks at Liverpool it sees ships, soccer, slums and a steeplechase. When the world listens to Liverpool, it hears the Mersey Sound and a lingo called Scouse. But how much more there is to this dramatic city where two great Cathedrals of the twentieth century look out above seven miles of bustling waterfront to the hilltops of Wales; where a Punch and Judy man parked his portable theatre against one of Europe's most notable facades; where a Methodist church displays a black Christ conceived by a Catholic ex-docker; where artists sell their paintings in the street; and where the citizens, born in poverty, own one of the finest collections of orchids.
It is the source of football pools but has one of Britain's biggest libraries. It produced the Beatles but the orchestra that Beecham and Boult listened to in boyhood gets an audience of 6000 for a single programme. It is building skyscrapers but keeps opulent Edwardian pubs, institutions like Paddy's market, and gracious salons built in times of appalling squalor.
This book sails the reader up the Mersey where leviathan tankers have taken the place of luxury liners. It tells blood-and-thunder stories of privateers, press gangs and clipper crews. It recalls the agonies of salve ships but explains how, in this century, the city's altruism saved millions of Africans from disease. And it analyses profound problems confronting the present day Liverpudlian, often descended from Catholic Irish and nonconformist Welsh, enormously zestful and born to be a comic. This is an affectionate look at Liverpool but with an eye that is also critical, and some of the views are controversial.

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