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THE LONDON COMEDY: INTERLUDES IN TOWN
Written by C.P. Hawkes.
Stock no. 2133917
Published by The Medici Society Ltd..
1st
1925.
Very good condition.
Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, some margins and outer page edges.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
A MONTH IN LONDON
Written by Jeffrey Tayler.
Stock no. 2133865
Published by Harvey And Darton.
1st
1832.
Good condition.
The American Mr. Hazelford voyages across the Atlantic to "inform himself of the real progress of England in the grand improvements of the age". Author is Jeffrey Taylor although no author named. Small format. Dark green cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. Frontis and illustrated title page plus 4 other b/w plates. 182 pages plus booklist. Rebacked with original spine covering laid down. New endpapers. Corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly marked. Foxing to frontis and title page. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins. Pages lightly browned. A few corner tips creased.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ANTIQUARIAN
ADVENTURES OF A YORKSHIRE FARMER AND HIS SCAPEGRACE NEVVY
Written by Timothy Goorkrodger.
Stock no. 2133863
Published by F.M. Fetherston.
Circa
1885.
Good condition.
The adventures of a Yorkshire farmer in London. Brown cloth spine, green boards. Text in dialect. 144 pages. Boards worn at edges with loss of paper covering at corners. Lower corner tip lost from rear cover. Tear to gutter between index and first page. Spine has a couple of black marks. Pages browned.
- Categorised in:
- LITERATURE
- LONDON
- YORKSHIRE
- DIALECTS
- ANTIQUARIAN
THE LONDON VENTURE
Written by Michael Arlen.
Stock no. 2133858
Published by William Heinemann.
1924.
Almost very good condition.
A novel. The author's first published book. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Rough cut edges to text-block. 141 pages. Spine slightly sunned and worn at top and tail. Corners bumped, lower front corner worn. Small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. 4 marks on front endpaper where label has been removed. Some tiny spots to prelims and last few pages. Contents lightly browned.
- Categorised in:
- LITERATURE
- LONDON
LONDON IN THE SIXTIES
Written by Donald Shaw.
Stock no. 2133855
Published by Everett & Co..
1st
1908.
Good condition.
London in the 1860's by 'On Of The Old Brigade', pseudonym of Donald Shaw. Brown pictorial cloth, yellow titles to spine, black titles to front cover. 6 b/w plates. 312 pages. SIGNED by author on front endpaper with presentation inscription. Spine and corners worn. Covers a little marked and cloth slightly bubbled. Bookplate of Col. Grantley Norton on front pastedown. Front endpaper has a couple of closed tears. Small Victorian photos stuck to blank pages of prelims and rear endpapers, 5 in total. Front endpaper reinserted. Rear endpaper partially detached. Pencil annotations to rear endpaper. Foxing to first and last pages and a few foxspots to contents, otherwise clean.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LONDON
LONDON UP TO DATE
Written by George Augustus Sala.
Stock no. 2133854
Published by Adam & Charles Black.
1895.
Good condition.
Essays describing scenes and characters by 'an authority on London streets'. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red titles and decorations to front cover. 378 pages. Spine faded and worn with tear in cloth at top. Corners bumped and rubbed. A few faint marks to covers. Newspaper cutting featuring Sala stuck to front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Pages lightly browned.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- ANTIQUARIAN
FORLORN SUNSET
Written by Michael Sadleir.
Illustrated by John Piper.
Stock no. 2133853
Published by Constable.
1st
1947.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Set in the 1870's, this is a story of disreputable London characters, who pandered to the amusements and miseries of their poor helpless victims. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis by Piper plus 3 b/w plates. 499 pages. Frontis illustration reproduced on wrapper. Spine and corners lightly bumped. Pages lightly browned. Wrapper a little grubby and nicked and rubbed at top edge.
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- LITERATURE
- LONDON
SMITH'S LONDON JOURNAL
Written by H. Allen Smith.
Stock no. 2133852
Published by Arthur Barker Ltd..
1st
1953.
Almost very good condition.
The amusing journal of an American in London. Red cloth, white title to spine. 234 pages includes glossary. Spine bumped, sunned and slightly marked. Corners bumped. A couple of foxspots to endpapers. Pages lightly browned else clean.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- DIARY
ODDITIES OF LONDON LIFE
Written by Paul Pry.
Stock no. 2133851
Published by E.L. Carey And A. Hart.
1st
1838.
Fair condition.
Small format. Brown cloth spine and boards. 212 pages. Most of title label worn from spine. Boards worn with some pen marks to rear cover. Pencil annotation to rear endpaper. Front joint split but cover holding. Front endpapers soiled. Foxing throughout. Reasonable condition for age.
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- LITERATURE
- LONDON
- ANTIQUARIAN
ADVENTURES OF BINDLE
Written by Herbert Jenkins.
Stock no. 2133850
Published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd..
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The further adventures of Joseph Bindle, furniture remover and 'the greatest cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote the Pickwick Papers'. Green boards, black titles. 176 pages. Corners very slightly rubbed. Pictorial wrapper is a little grubby and has closed tear to rear panel.
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- LITERATURE
- LONDON
LMS ENGINE SHEDS THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT VOLUME FOUR THE SMALLER ENGLISH CONSTITUENTS
Written by Chris Hawkins; George Reeve.
Stock no. 1820194
Published by Wild Swan Publications.
1st
1984.
Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and track diagrams. The Furness Railway, The London Tilbury & Southend Railway, The North Staffordshire Railway, The Stratford-Upon-Avon & Midland Junction Railway and The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. ISBN: 0906867207. Very faint foxspots to prelims and text block. Light browning to pastedowns. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- LMS (RAILWAYS)
- LONDON
LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES & COACHES: LISTING OF VEHICLES SHOWN IN YEAR BOOKS FOR 1939 TO 1945 AND 1946 TO 1962
No author listed.
Stock no. 1820030
Published by John A.S. Hambley.
10th
2001.
Nearly fine condition.
Tenth Edition. The RTL & RTW Classes after London and General Buses of the Twenties. In Route Number Order. Green, spiral bound cardwraps. 86 pages. Light creasing to covers. Contents clean.