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LONDON NIGHTS OF LONG AGO

by Shaw Desmond

Published by Duckworth. 1st. 1927

Almost very good condition. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 28 entertaining b/w plates. 8.5 x 5.5". 252 pages.

Bumping to spine; label to base of spine (Possible ex-lib.). Wear and some scuffs to covers. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Plate page 132 appears to have been stuck back in and has edge-tears and chips.

Stock no. 2134333

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Contents

  • Foreward: Twitterlight
  • I. Memory's Magic Box
  • II. Intermezzo
  • III. When the World was Very Young
  • IV. A Night "Up West"
  • V. When Woman cam into "The City"
  • VI. High Finance
  • VII. Feeding the Brute in the 'Nineties
  • VIII. Alamode in the City - or "As You Like It"
  • IX. Before Democracy Died
  • X. The Lost Art of Enjoying Oneself
  • XI. A Night up the River
  • XII. Mafeking Night
  • XIII. Nights-Red and Green
  • XIV. King Edward's Funeral
  • XV. A Night of Strong Men
  • XVI. A night with the Gods at Olympia
  • XVII. Wizards and Waxworks
  • XVIII. "The Crack of the Bones and the Tambourine"
  • XIX. Boxing Night at Drury Lane
  • XX. The Age of the Actor-Manager and Some Old-time "First Nights"
  • XXI. Beerbohm Tree and Her Majesty's
  • XXII. "Twelfth Night"
  • XXIII. A Canterbury Tale
  • XXIV. A Musical Medley
  • XXV. Stars That Twinkled Long Ago
  • XXVI A Night at the Old Tivoli
  • XXVII. "The Lat Turn"
  • L'Envoi

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