LONDON NIGHTS OF LONG AGO
Written by Shaw Desmond
Published by Duckworth
in 1927
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LONDON NIGHTS OF LONG AGO
Written by Shaw Desmond.
Stock no. 2134333
1st.
1927.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 28 entertaining b/w plates. 8.5 x 5.5". 252 pages. Bumping to spine; label to base of spine (Possible ex-lib.). Wear and some scuffs to covers. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Plate page 132 appears to have been stuck back in and has edge-tears and chips.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreward: Twitterlight
- I. Memory's Magic Box
- II. Intermezzo
- III. When the World was Very Young
- IV. A Night "Up West"
- V. When Woman cam into "The City"
- VI. High Finance
- VII. Feeding the Brute in the 'Nineties
- VIII. Alamode in the City - or "As You Like It"
- IX. Before Democracy Died
- X. The Lost Art of Enjoying Oneself
- XI. A Night up the River
- XII. Mafeking Night
- XIII. Nights-Red and Green
- XIV. King Edward's Funeral
- XV. A Night of Strong Men
- XVI. A night with the Gods at Olympia
- XVII. Wizards and Waxworks
- XVIII. "The Crack of the Bones and the Tambourine"
- XIX. Boxing Night at Drury Lane
- XX. The Age of the Actor-Manager and Some Old-time "First Nights"
- XXI. Beerbohm Tree and Her Majesty's
- XXII. "Twelfth Night"
- XXIII. A Canterbury Tale
- XXIV. A Musical Medley
- XXV. Stars That Twinkled Long Ago
- XXVI A Night at the Old Tivoli
- XXVII. "The Lat Turn"
- L'Envoi