Melville H. inc. & Shepherd T. H. dis.MareMagnum
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8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
8vo., Eighth Impression, with frontispiece, very numerous plates toned in sepia, full-page map in the text and endpaper maps; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, red top (mildly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937, providing a complete record of London before the bombing. EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous plates and maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
Large format book is in excellent condition with black cloth covers, gilt print at 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. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 100 photographers were selected and flown in for a midnight vigil in over 2,000 locations throughout the city of London. Photographers include Ken Griffiths, Harry Gruyeart, Sunil Gupta, David Hurn , Sunil Janah, Dmitri Kasterine, William Klein, Akira Kobayashi, Andre Kertesz, Peter Martens, Tim Mercer, David Montgomery, Sue Packer, Raissa Page, Tim O'Sullivan, Richard Waite, Horst Wackerbath, Richard Young, Yerry Young Ian Yeomans, Paul Windson, Sally Soames, Pennie Smith, Sarita Sharma, Syd Shelton, Neil Selkirk et al.
A journal of his personal experiences and meditations in London Ontario 94p.Author inscription on ffep isbn 0920516917 Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked with a little creasing to upper edge and tiny nick to bottom of spine. 192pp. This is based on the Channel 4 programme which followed the lives of a family of six who lived for three months as a Victorian family in a London house restored to how it would have been in Victorian times.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and 13 illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its neat stamps on endpapers and title verso. Scarce.
72 pages. Several great pages of great colour illustrations and photos. Includes these songs: London Town; Cafe on the Left Bank; I'm Carrying; Backwards Traveller; Cuff Link; Children Children; Girlfriend; I've Had Enough; With a Little Luck; Famous Groupies; Deliver Your Children; Name and Address; Don't Let it Bring You Down; Morse Moose and the Grey Goose. Average wear. Unmarked. One-inch opening at top of backstrip. Last few pages of photos nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy of this great Wings memento. Book
Previous owner's name/address/date to front end papers. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front board, light dusting to page edges and no bumping to corners. 144pp. An introduction to the vast, complicated history of London
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 264 pages, heavily illustrated throughout with color and b&w prints, illustrations, photos, maps. Contents include: Experience of a ham sandwich seller, Coffee stall keepers, Street piemen, Street sellers of boiled puddings, Statement of a prostitute, Crippled seller of nutmeg graters, Music duffers, Rosemary lane, Tricks of the bird duffers, Street trade in baked potatoes, Sheeps trotter women, London flower girls, Penny gaff, vic gallery, etc.
427 pages. Originally published in 1862. Presents a remarkably vivid picture of an aspect of Victorian life that few other writers of the age had dared to examine: the teeming underworld of 19th century London, whose headquarters were established a few yards from what is today Picadilly Circus. Very light wear. Discard stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 427 pages with occasional illustrations, Contents include: Prostitutes: Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; Bawds; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; THEIVES AND SWINDLERS: Sneaks, Common Thieves, Stealing from Children, Child Stripping, Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles, Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys, Lodgers, Servants, Attic , Garret Theives; Rookery of St. Giles , Pickpockets ,Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters, Spitalfields, Horse-stealing, Dog-stealing, Highway Robbers,Felonies , River Thames, Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys, Smuggling, River Priates, Mudlark, Receivers of Stolen Property, Coining Forgers, Bank, Skittles; Thimble and Pea, The Lock, Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS, Begging-Letter Writers, Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar,Turnpike Sailor, Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars, etc.
Book is in excellent condition except for a heavy bump to the upper corners of the covers, causing a little bump to the very corner of the page block also. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, with blue cloth covers, gilt print at spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears, price sticker at front. 427 pages. Contents include: Prostitutes: Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; Bawds; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; THEIVES AND SWINDLERS: Sneaks, Common Thieves, Stealing from Children, Child Stripping, Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles, Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys, Lodgers, Servants, Attic , Garret Theives; Rookery of St. Giles , Pickpockets ,Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters, Spitalfields, Horse-stealing, Dog-stealing, Highway Robbers,Felonies , River Thames, Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys, Smuggling, River Priates, Mudlark, Receivers of Stolen Property, Coining Forgers, Bank, Skittles; Thimble and Pea, The Lock, Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS, Begging-Letter Writers, Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar,Turnpike Sailor, Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars, etc.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. With a copy of the original purchase invoice loosely inserted. Mayer was co-founder of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Boards with light shelfwear. Slight tanning to endpapers. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded; B&W Illustrations; 4to
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, illustrated half-title, 89 monochrome plates on 60 and folding map, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. First published in 1935. This is by far the best account, detailed and well illustrated. SCARCE.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in brown and blue, coloured title-vignette, 35 fine full-page coloured or tinted illustrations, and numerous coloured or tinted illustrations in the text; original decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, bevelled edges, a good, clean copy of an early Maxwell.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (original captioned tissue guard present where called for), 4 folding maps on japon, 8 full-page maps and 5 smaller maps in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original regimental green cloth, regimental crest blocked in silver on upper board, backstrip lettered in silver, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the errata slip mounted at Introduction. Covers 1 Bn (France, Flanders), 2 Bn (Home service, France, Flanders), and 3 Bn (Home service) during WWI. Includes roll of officers, awards & decorations, commissions from ranks. The separate map case is not present with this copy. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.460; White, p.201.
