FIFTY YEARS OF A LONDONER'S LIFE
Written by H.G. Hibbert
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company
in 1916
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- BIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
FIFTY YEARS OF A LONDONER'S LIFE
Written by H.G. Hibbert.
Stock no. 1820981
1st.
1916.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Light blue/grey cloth boards, brown titles. 18 b/w plates. Spine browned and worn at top & tail with some fraying. Corners worn, small bump to lower front edge of board. Grubby marks to boards. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Front hinge pulled and frontis almost detached. Scattered foxing throughout.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter I A London Backwater
- chapter II An Old Stock Company
- Chapter III In a Provincial Newspaper Office
- Chapter IV Of Critics, Old and New
- Chapter V The Story of the music Hall
- Chapter VI The London Pavilion
- Chapter VII The Old Mogul
- Chapter VIII The Vital Spark
- Chapter IX Music Hall Society
- Chapter X East End Entertainment
- Chapter XI The Lost Theatres of London
- Chapter XII Round Leicester Square
- Chapter XIII Singers Who are Silent
- Chapter XIV Half-A-Century of Song
- Chapter XV Ballets and Ballet Dancers
- Chapter XVI American Cousins
- Chapter XVII Night Clubs
- Chapter XVIII Dead-Head and Claquers
- Chapter XIX Princes and Palaces
- Chapter XX Music Hall Agency
- Chapter XXI Counterfeit Presentments
- Chapter XXII One-Horse Shows
- Chapter XXIII Empire-Building
- Chapter XXIV Notes - or Gold?
- Chapter XXV Feverish First Nights
- Chapter XXVI Some Editors
- Chapter XXVII The Westminster Aquarium
- Chapter XXVIII Concerning Choristers
- Chapter XXIX Musical Comedy
- Chapter XXX The Salaries of Celebrities
- Chapter XXXI Memorable Productions
- Chapter XXXII A Study in Stoll
- Chapter XXXIII Society - Fifty Years Ago
- Chapter XXXIV The Gaiety and its Managers
- Chapter XXXV My Old Album
- Chapter XXXVI The Romance of the Cinema
- Chapter XXXVII Meditations Among the Tombs
- Appendix
- Alhambra Chronology
- Empire Chronology
- Index