A BACHELOR'S LONDON
Written by Frederic Whyte
Published by Grant Richards
in 1931
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A BACHELOR'S LONDON
Written by Frederic Whyte.
Stock no. 2134327
1st.
1931.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Memories of the Day before Yesterday 1889-1914. Green cloth with black title to spine. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Darkening to spine. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.
Front cover
Contents
- I. An Old-style Publishing Firm: Cassell's
- II. Some books and Bookmen of the Early 'Nineties: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff; J. M. Barrie; The Author of "Raffles"; Herbert Compton; Archibald Forbes; "Toby, M.P"
- III. England's Army of Novelists; How we Coped with some Tens of Thousands of Them at Cassell's
- IV. About "R.L.S." and "The Wrecker" - and a Coincidence
- V. An Hibernian Quartette: R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Arthur Conan Coyle, L. F. Austin, Tighe Hopkins
- VI. Last Years at La Belle Sauvage Yard: 1900-1905
- VII. Holiday Memories: Paris and Ireland, 1890-1905
- VIII. The Art and Practice of Translation
- IX. The Cinderella of the Sciences
- X. About "G.B.S." and some Others
- XI. Arthur Diosy
- XII. A News-Style Publishing Firm: Methuen's: 1907-1909
- XIII. "Max"
- XIV. Stanley Makower
- XV. "G.K.C."
- XVI Stockholm and Upsala; and the Swedish Book world in 1912
- XVII. A Sexagenarian's Success: H.G. Spearing and his Book "The Childhood of Art"
- XVIII. A Bachelor's Quarters, 1894-1914
- XIX. Notes from a Diary in the Year of the War
- Index