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LONDON IDYLLS
Written by W.J. Dawson.
Stock no. 1820950
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1895. Very good condition.

Burgundy cloth boards iwth gilt titles and vignettes to front. Floral endpapers. A few marks to boards, edges lightly rubbed. Joints starting to crack. Grubby pencil erasure to first blank page which is uncut from half-title page. One or two random foxspots.

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SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON; THE FATAL BOOTS; LITTLE TRAVELS AND ROADSIDE SKETCHES
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Stock no. 2134218
Published by The Caxton Publishing Company. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine; white decorations to front cover. Spine and edge of rear cover is faded. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Some foxing. Hinge next to frontis/title page is cracked.

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ARTEMUS WARD IN LONDON, AND OTHER PAPERS
Written by Artemus Ward; Charles Farrar Browne. Illustrated by J.H. Howard.
Stock no. 1820755
Published by G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers. 1st 1867. Very good condition.

With comic illustrations by J.H. Howard. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, embossed decoration to boards. 6 b/w plates. Spine browned & worn at top & tail. Corners lightly worn. Front joint just starting to crack. Some light browning.

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TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH
Written by Barbara Goolden.
Stock no. 2134079
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Maroon cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. Bumping and wear to spine. Marks and spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chips and nicks; grubby marks to rear panel.

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THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Mrs. Herbert Railton.
Stock no. 1820468
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st thus 1891. Almost very good condition.

Limited Edition of 150. The Temple Library series. Vellum(?) spines, orange/brown title to spine, green cloth boards. Deckle-edged. Numbered copy 139. Both spines grubby, volume II spine is also worn with chips of missing vellum and title is faded. Endpapers and text block browned. Hinges pulled but binding tight.

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ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: A RECONSTRUCTION
Written by R.C. Hutchinson.
Stock no. 2134029
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth with gilt title to spine. Some page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of small closed tears and chips; browned to a few edges.

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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.

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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.

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LODGERS IN LONDON
Written by Adelaide Eden Phillpotts.
Stock no. 2133856
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1926. Very good condition.

A novel. Black cloth, printed title label to spine. Top edge green. 321 pages. Spine bumped and a little worn at base. Name in pencil to front pastedown. Pages lightly browned else clean.

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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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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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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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