MEMORIALS OF OLD CHELSEA
Written by Alfred Beaver. Illustrated by Alfred Beaver.
Stock no. 1820342
Published by S.R. Publishers Ltd.. 1st thus 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1892, this edition is republished. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations by the author. ISBN: 0854097104. Text block a little dusty, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and is scuffed to rear panel.

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WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES: LONDON DISASTERS 1830-1917
Written by Wendy Neal.
Stock no. 2133920
Published by Hisarlik Press. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1874312001. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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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.

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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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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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LONDON AT THE END OF THE CENTURY
Written by Arthur William Abeckett.
Stock no. 2133859
1st 1900. Very good condition.

A Book of Gossip. Some sketches of the Great Metropolis at the end of the 19th century. Russet cloth, gilt title to spine, black title and vignette to front cover. 350 pages plus booklist. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Front joint cracked slightly exposing webbing. Foxspots throughout, more on first and last pages, else clean.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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