Soft City by Jonathan Raban 1974 Hamish Hamilton hardback 1st Edition

This early title by Jonathan Raban is titled Soft City and was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1974. The book is bound in navy cloth with gilt spine titles and comes complete with original dust wrapper.\n\""Soft City is an imaginative inquiry into the life of the individual in the big city. There have been many recent studies of the sociology, architecture and literature of the city; Jonathan Raban is concerned with the nature of citizenship, and with how it feels to live in a labyrinth of a metropolis, and what it means to be a city man. His book blends autobiography, fiction and anthropology, and in the process it challenges many of our conventional assumptions about city life\"". I have graded this item as 'good' as the boards are a little rubbed and bumped here and there but structurally fine. The bindings are fine and the pages within though a tad off white with age are free from any serious wear (no rips, tears, bad creasing inscriptions or foxing etc). The d;