FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON SOCIETY 1870-1920
Published by Brentano's
in 1920
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- SOCIAL HISTORY
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FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON SOCIETY 1870-1920
Stock no. 2134068
1st USA.
1920.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Cloth spine with title label. Brown mottled covers. American edition. SIGNED by Hamiliton Hadden (Polo player) to front endpaper, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Grubby marks to spine. Bumping and chipping along cover edges. Half-title page has a couple of inch tear next to spine at top. Page edge browning.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter I Introductory
- Chapter II "Smart" Society, Reformers and "New Money" People
- Chapter III "London" not Larger than Monaco"!
- Chapter IV London'[s Day - Origin of the Season
- Chapter V The Playground of the Rich
- Chapter VI "High-Dizened, Most Expensive Persons - Best of World"
- Chapter VII A Group of Notabilities and Some Episodes
- Chapter VIII more Notabilities
- Chapter IX Dukes, Marquises, and the Old School
- Chapter X Queens, Duchesses and Diplomatists
- Chapter XI An Ex-King and his Nephews, and Divers Celebrities