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QUEEN SQUARE: ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD & ITS INSTITUTIONS
Written by Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton.
Stock no. 1820910
Published by Leonard Parsons. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Page edges uncut. Gift inscription in ink to front pastedown above bookplate of John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd (an antiquarian researcher, public servant and notable figure in the memoirs of many notable figures of the twentieth century, including Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell). A few grubby marks to margins.

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A STORY TELLER FORTY YEARS IN LONDON
Written by W. Pett Ridge.
Stock no. 2134222
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1923. Fair condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 1880-1920. B/w plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven fading/browning to covers; some marks. Frontis is detached, but still present. Foxing to outer page edges. A reading copy only!

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LONDON AND LONDONERS IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
Written by Alfred Rosling Bennett.
Stock no. 2134220
Published by Adelphi Company. 1st USA 1925. Good condition.

Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w plates. American edition. Damage to base of spine - roughly 2" square cloth tear, with some fraying to cloth. Spine is also faded. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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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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LONDON IN MY TIME
Written by Thomas Burke.
Stock no. 2134216
Published by Loring & Mussey. 1st USA 1934. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and vignette. American edition. Spine and cover edge are faded/browned. Corners are bumped. Front joint is cracked. Bookplate to front pastedown. Newspaper announcement stuck to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is torn in two at spine, with some loss at corners; unevenly browned.

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THE CANTING CREW: LONDON'S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 1550-1700
Written by John L. McMullan.
Stock no. 1820768
Published by Rutgers University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A volume in the Crime, Law and Deviance series. Reconstructing the criminal underworld in Elizabethan and Stuart London - an underworld of thieves, pickpockets, confidence cheats, prostitutes, and fences. Analyzing the organizational features of crime. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0813510228. Grubby mark to front pastedown. Date stamped to rear endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and small chips, grubby to rear panel.

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LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Written by Percy H. Boynton.
Stock no. 1820763
Published by University of Chicago Press. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Top edge gilt. Board edges lightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing to margins.

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MUSICAL HAUNTS IN LONDON
Written by F.G. Edwards.
Stock no. 1820758
Published by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1895. Almost very good condition.

Buildings of London with a musical history. Red cloth boards, black title to front. 13 b/w illustrations including fold-out sketch of St. Paul's Cathedral to front. 58 pages including index plus adverts to rear. Spine faded, boards grubby. Front joint split but binding tight. Browning to free endpapers. Contents clean.

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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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THE DEVIOUS DR. FRANKLIN, COLONIAL AGENT: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S YEARS IN LONDON
Written by David T. Morgan.
Stock no. 1820754
Published by Mercer University Press. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Benjamin Franklin's fifteen-and-a-half-year career as a colonial agent in London. Beige cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0865545251.

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THE CRIERS AND HAWKERS OF LONDON
Written by Sean Shesgreen. Illustrated by Marcellus Laroon.
Stock no. 2134152
Published by Stanford University Press. 1st USA 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary by Shesgreen. ISBN: 0804715068. Bumping along a couple of cover edges; a few marks to covers. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with some fading at edges.

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LONDON STATISTICS 1932-33 VOL. XXXVII
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134150
Published by London County Council. 1934. Almost very good condition.

Dark green/blue cloth with white titles to front cover and gilt title to spine. Statistics of the Administrative County of London, and of the public services carried on therein; together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts. Ex-lib. with some usual markings to spine and prelims. Remains of white label stuck to front cover. Corners and spine are bumped. New endpapers. Page edge browning. Some grubby marks to outer page edges and page margins.

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