Men of Dunwich: The Story of a Vanished Town

First edition, first impression.  272pp.  Maps on endpapers. Green publisher's cloth binding, gilt titles on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth gently pushed in at spine ends.  Upper text block edge dust dulled & spotted.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original worn and chapped dust wrapper, sunned over spine with some visible shelf wear on verso. Dunwich, in Suffolk, waws the capital of the kingdom of the East Angles in Anglo-Saxon times.  At its height it was an international sea port similar in size to 14th century London, but the decline began in the 13th century when a storm surge hit the East Anglian coast: that, together with further storms and coastal erosion have since reduced Dunwich to a village with the population of around 200.