BABYLON THE GREAT: A DISSECTION AND DEMONSTRATION OF MEN AND THINGS IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Robert Mudie.
Stock no. 1820501
Published by Charles Knight. 1st 1825. Good condition.

A book about London, 'in its confusion of tongues, of people, and of employments, it is Babylon; and in all its attributes it is "Babylon the Great."' A two volume set. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gilt title label to spines. Boards scuffed and worn at edges. Volume II is cracked to outside front spine edge with slight loss of leather to top. Contemporary inscription in ink to front endpapers. Volume II has insect damage to gutter edge of prelims. Scattered foxing and age marks throughout.

LONDON AT SCHOOL: THE STORY OF THE SCHOOL BOARD 1870-1904
Written by Hugh B. Philpott.
Stock no. 1820500
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. 1st 1904. Good condition.

The story of the London School Board. Red cloth boards, black titles. B/w photos. Ex-lib with usual marks mainly to text block and front endpapers. Boards a little grubby. Spine browned and marked. Front joint starting to crack from base. Hinges pulled but binding tight. Text block browned. Contents generally clean.

RHONDDA MY VALLEY BRAVE
Written by Emrys Pride; George Thomas.
Stock no. 1319632
Published by The Starling Press. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Introduction by George Thomas. ISBN: 0903434059. Spine bumped at head and tail. Top edge of textblock slightly grubby else contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, has white marks and original price-label to front panel.

JOHN BULL, LIMITED
Written by George W. Hills.
Stock no. 1820471
Published by Regent Publishing Co.. Almost very good condition.

Travels around the United Kingdom. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. Rear board a little scuffed, spine slightly faded, titles bright. Corners lightly worn. Name in ink to front endpaper. Annotations in biro to rear endpaper. A few scattered foxspots. All plates present.

READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor.
Stock no. 2134010
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards with gilt title to spine. From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions - the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to World War II, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. ISBN: 9781107009295.

LONDON JOURNAL: A SURVEY OF LONDON LIFE IN THE 1830S
Written by Flora Tristan.
Stock no. 2133989
Published by Goerge Prior. 1980. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An English translation from the French. Title to front is: Flora Tristan's London Journal 1840. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0860434044. Newspaper residue/surface pieces left to verso of front endpaper and free front endpaper, which also has previous book sellers sticker stuck to it. Some pencil annotations/marks. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine; some nicks to corners.

LONDON FILMS AND CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS
Written by W.D. Howells.
Stock no. 2133988
Published by Harper And Brothers. Circa 1911. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with black titles. B/w plates. Spotting to covers and outer page edges.

MEMORIALS OF OLD CHELSEA
Written by Alfred Beaver. Illustrated by Alfred Beaver.
Stock no. 1820342
Published by S.R. Publishers Ltd.. 1st thus 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1892, this edition is republished. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations by the author. ISBN: 0854097104. Text block a little dusty, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and is scuffed to rear panel.

INNS AND TAVERNS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE LOWER WYE VALLEY PART 4
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1319535
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1976. Nearly fine condition.

Card wrap blue booklet. 500 printed. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278323. Staples are rusty.

CHEPSTOW THEATRES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1319528
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Pink card wrap booklet. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278293. Staples rusty. Contents fine.

THE LONDON COMEDY: INTERLUDES IN TOWN
Written by C.P. Hawkes.
Stock no. 2133917
Published by The Medici Society Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Name in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, some margins and outer page edges.

A MONTH IN LONDON
Written by Jeffrey Tayler.
Stock no. 2133865
Published by Harvey And Darton. 1st 1832. Good condition.

The American Mr. Hazelford voyages across the Atlantic to "inform himself of the real progress of England in the grand improvements of the age". Author is Jeffrey Taylor although no author named. Small format. Dark green cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. Frontis and illustrated title page plus 4 other b/w plates. 182 pages plus booklist. Rebacked with original spine covering laid down. New endpapers. Corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly marked. Foxing to frontis and title page. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins. Pages lightly browned. A few corner tips creased.