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Haunted London

"This was the first book on London's ghosts, when Peter Underwood was President of the Ghost Club. He is uniquely qualified to write Haunted London, presenting a parade and gazetteer of the psychic phenomena of Britain's capital city - a city with nearly ten million living inhabitants and the ghosts of many dead ones.As well as all of the famous hauntings - the Cock Lane ghost, the Grey Man at Drury Lane, the Tower ghosts, the haunted house at Berkeley Square etc. - the book contains many new and hitherto unpublished findings. Not all ghosts date back to earlier centuries: there are ghost motorcyclists, for instance, and new buildings on the sites of older ones are as likely to have ghosts as those which still stand.For easy reference, Haunted London has divided up London geographically. Ghostly associations are uncovered in churches, theaters, hotels, inns and scenes of murders. Poltergeist infestation is another phenomenon included in this work which is sure to fascinate anyone wanting to get to know London better - whether they be visitors, psychic researchers, students of history, of legend or folklore, or simply lovers of one of the world's finest cities." 200p.photos (B & W] Index Book

Today Magazine, 8 November 1980 - David Suzuki Cover

28 pages. Features: Sylvia Tyson describes her beginnings - with photos; Christine Marshall is featured in London Life ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for theh Datsun 210; David Suzuki - A Scientist in China - article with photos; The Invisible Woman - Barbara Howard is one of our Finest Artists; Ottawa Roughrider Mike Raines is the best Defensive Tackle in Canada; Great colour centerfold displays the line of 1981 Pontiacs, including their MPG estimates; Freedom Army - flashback to the liberation of the Netherlands from the Nazis; Fashion article by Marina Sturdza; Legionnaire's Disease; Full-page colour photo ad for McDonald's Egg McMuffin; Co-operative Games for Children produced by Jim and Ruth Deacove; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book

Peeps into the past, or, bygone city life, traditions, customs and festivals

1st edition. Good in green cloth, gilt. Cover spine frayed at the top edge. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 14335. eng

Without a City Wall. A Short Guide to St. Sepulchre without Newgate London. NEAR FINE COPY

8vo., Third Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

Two Early Panoramas of The Regent's Park. The Panoramas of Richard Morris and John Mortimer. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured facsimiles and maps in the text; maroon cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 177.

The Edwardian Lady

Description of life as an Edwardian lady, by an author who was there. With 15 plates. 112 pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.

Horse Guards The Commander in Chiefs Levee

Old London Street Cries and the Cries of Today. REMARKABLY FRESH, CLEAN COPY

16mo., on laid paper, with a woodcut frontispiece COLOURED BY HAND and numerous woodcuts in the text; newly and skilfully bound in marbled boards of the period, ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL PRESERVED, ORIGINAL TIES MOUNTED (one defective), an unusually fresh, clean copy. Published by Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press ('Rights Reserved: Wrongs Revenged'). The considerable popularity of the author's 'London Cries' published two years earlier at the price of one guinea prompted 'the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at the more popular price of a shilling'. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Old St. Paul's. The Society of Antiquaries' Diptych, 1616. Edited by Penelope Hunting and Ann Saunders. FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, coloured plates, and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. LTS Publication No. 163.

Japanesque in London - A Two-Man Exhibition, Japanese Lacquer and Calligraphy, November 15-24, 1994, Royal College of Art Gallery, London

47 pages. Oblong 21cm x 30cm. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Book

DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS.

pp. 325 + Eight full page lithographed satirical plates by August Hervieu, who accompanied Mrs. Trollope on her American tour. Foxed. Worn contemporary full cloth binding. "Landing at New Orleans in late December, 1827, she went almost immediately up the river to Memphis and thence to Louisville and Cincinnati, reaching the latter place about February 10, 1828. At Memphis she tarried a few days and went to visit Francis Wright's near-by Nashoba Community, which oppressed her with its unfinished buildings and primitive surroundings. After leaving Cincinnati, the scene of her most violent tirades against the United States, she passed the summer of 1830 in Maryland. Here she observed slavery, especially among the small landed proprietors, and found the slaves not badly treated, although she believed the essence of the system to be bad" - Clark 112. She also visited Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Washington, and New York. "A minor classic of looking down one's nose" - Streeter 845. Her book became an instant best seller. Her attacks on the Americans assured that the book would be an object of great controversy, and would sell on both sides of the Atlantic. Nevins calls it "the most prejudiced and hotly discussed of all British books of travel in the United States." Sabin 97028; Howes T35; Robinson p. 197. FIRST U.S. EDITION. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W147

The Gay Twenties : A Decade of the Theatre. Foreword by Noel COWARD.

Tall 8vo. pp: 128. Cloth, Gilt Lettering. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated with 130 b&w photographs. Indices. An excellent history of the theatre. The two people listed as illustrators were, in fact, not the photographers but rather the archival researchers who found all the marvellous photographs. Good [PL-EN] Good

Greater London : Its Growth and Development Through Two Thousand Years

4to, 282 pages, illustrated with 118 photographs by the author and 26 prints. eng

Weekend Magazine, 15 June 1968 (Newspaper Insert) - Nicole Deslauriers Cover Photo

28 pages. Features: Alberta is Manning Country - Excellent article on Ernest Manning who took over as head of government in Alberta twenty-five years ago - colour photo of E.C. Manning and black and white photo of his son Preston Manning; Interview with Montreal Model Nicole Deslauriers - article with photos; Interview with golfer Billy Casper - article and photos; Nice colour ad for the CCM Firebird bicycle which has a 'banana' seat and endorsement by Bobby Hull; Article on Lasers; "The Fool" - Barry Finch and his group of designers lead London in way-out fashions - article with colour photos; Hires Root Beer ad; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 3"x 8" clipping from page 23 only affects recipe and preview of next issue. A quality vintage copy. Book

London Under London: A Subterranean Guide

Book is in excellent condition with one bumped corner, otherwise as new in black cloth covers with silver text at spine, decorated endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers otherwise have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, not price clipped. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Horological Journal January-December 2000

Twelve issues Jan-Dec 2000

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY.

Full Title: "ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY. A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Centres, Bridges, Roofs; Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, etc. To Which is Added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber. 4th Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. With an Appendix Containing Specimens of Various Ancient and Modern Roofs, by Peter Barlow." pp. xxiv, 333 + Fifty-three (53) engraved plates [as called for], some folding. Old age stain. Partially unopened. Small folio. Original full cloth binding, embossed in blind. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was an important English architect and engineer. In 1813 he joined William Atkinson, architect to the ordnance in London, and in 1823 went into private practice as a civil engineer. These 'Elementary Principles of Carpentry' were first published in 1820. He also wrote 'Strength of Cast Iron' (1821), and 'The Steam Engine' (1827). Scarce and significant. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150 / DC

The Travelling Hornplayer

First edition, first printing. Light shelf wear to jacket; worn at top edge on both jacket and cover. Still very good condition; contents clean, bright, and sound throughout. Used

The Tramways of East London. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper plans; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Fishing with Harry: A Tale of Piscatorial Mayhem

No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to a small number of page corners and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 239pp. A fishing tale, at times touching, at times bawdy, always amusing, this is a book not just for anglers, but for anyone who enjoys a finely-told story.

London River

251 p. One (#940) of 2100 copy first printing. Hardcover Good condition; spine ends frayed, paper label chipped & worn

London River

Book is in excellent condition with a little shelf wear only, light sunning to spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for former owner's name inside cover and on title page. 251 pages, contents include: The foreshore, Midnight voyage, A shipping parish, The ship-runners, An Old Lloyd's register.

CLUBS AND CLUB LIFE IN LONDON. With Anecdotes of Its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns, From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time.

pp. (1) [Publisher's ad for "History of Signboards"], xiv, 544 + Frontis and full page drawings of London clubs. XLib number on title page. Some signatures loose. Penciled margin notations. 12mo. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. When John Timbs (1801-1875), English antiquary, was in his sixteenth year, he was apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession. He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, the Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. VERIA BX 2

CURIOSITIES OF LONDON EXHIBITING THE MOST RARE AND REMARKABLE OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE METROPOLIS. With Nearly Sixty Years' Personal Recollections. A New Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

pp. vii, 871 + Engraved half title and Six full page steel engraved plates. Marbled end papers. All edges marbled. 4to. Half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands on spine. Original leather spine label. Extremities rubbed and worn. Front board detached. A possible candidate for binding restoration. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BX 6