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THE LONDON APPRENTICE AND THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER OF THE WEST CHEPE;
Written by Pierce Egan.
Stock no. 2134069
Published by W.S. Johnson. 1st 1852. Good condition.

Volumes 1, 2 and 3 complete and bound together in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Fold-out frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine is browned with chipping/fraying to cloth along edges. Damp stain to rear cover. Other marks to covers. Tape to front joint. Inscription in ink and pencil inscription to front endpaper. Rear joint cracked. Page edge browning; some foxing. All parts and plates are present, including frontispiece (which is absent from many copies). Frontis has tape repairs to verso.

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FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON SOCIETY 1870-1920
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134068
Published by Brentano's. 1st USA 1920. 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.

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BEYOND THE MOTHER COUNTRY: WEST INDIANS AND THE NOTTING HILL WHITE RIOTS
Written by Edward Pilkington.
Stock no. 2134064
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. This book examines an important missing chapter in the history of post-war Britain. ISBN: 1850431132. Page browning. Wrapper has some edge-creasing.

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FIFTY YEARS OF FIRE FIGHTING IN LONDON
Written by Jack While; Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 2134063
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1931. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Jack While was an unofficial Recorder of the London Fire Brigade. Foreword by Wallace. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib. with some markings and stamps. Heavy wear to covers; uneven fading, some scuffing and some fraying to cloth. Foxing.

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TO THE GATES OF RICHMOND: THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN
Written by Stephen W. Sears.
Stock no. 1820521
Published by Ticknor & Fields. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

The Peninsula campaign of 1862 was the largest campaign of the Civil War and also one of the bloodiest. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps, photos & illustrations. ISBN: 0395701015. Small grubby mark from label to rear cover. A few light creases present. Text block a little grubby. Cigarette odour present.

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NAPOLEON AND BERLIN: THE NAPOLEONIC WARS IN PRUSSIA 1813
Written by Michael V. Leggiere.
Stock no. 1820519
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was obsessed with capturing Berlin - this book explores this doomed campaign which ultimately derailed his plans for the domination of Europe and lost him the Napoleonic Wars. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and illustrations. ISBN: 0752423339. Browning to contents. Cigarette odour present.

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SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Martin Gilbert.
Stock no. 1820512
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Recounting the courage of soldiers, sailors and airmen, the courage of partisans and resistance fighters, and the courage of those who, starving, tormented and without strength or weapons, were murdered far from the battlefields isolated and alone. Black cloth boards, orange title label to spine with silver title. Orange endpapers. B/w maps and photos. ISBN: 029779616X. Small pinhole to dustwrapper spine and corresponding hole to board spine. Text block a little grubby. Dustwrapper spine is faded, rear panel of dustwrapper is scuffed.

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HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AVIATION: FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Written by David Wragg.
Stock no. 1820504
Published by The History Press. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A definitive reference work on the history of aviation. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780750945271. Light fading to rear spine edge of dustwrapper.

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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.

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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.

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REAL LIFE IN LONDON (2 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1820499
Published by Jones And Co.. Circa 1822. Good condition.

Or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners and amusements in High and Low Life by An Amateur. Leather spine and corners, marbled paper boards. Vol 1: hand coloured frontispiece, title page and 17 plates plus Tom and Bob catching a Charley napping. Vol 2: hand coloured frontispiece, title page and 11 plates plus St Georges Day presentation. One of the better imitations of the hugely popular 'Life in London' by Pierce Egan, portraying with accuracy 17th century London society, scenes and buildings. Leather spine & corners, title label with gilt title to spine, marbled paper boards. First Edition, later printing e.g. contains 'A word to the wise' in vol II. Covers heavily scuffed and worn at edges. Slight loss to title blocks. Leather missing from one front corner. Joints cracked. Title pages have been swapped by the binder i.e. volume one contains title page for volume two and vice versa. All plates present. Text block browned. Contents browned and foxed. Plates nice and bright with browning and foxing mainly to margins.

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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX THROUGH LONDON, OR THE PLEASURES AND MISERIES OF THE METROPOLIS.
Written by Doctor Syntax.
Stock no. 1820498
Published by J. Johnston. 1st 1820. Good condition.

A poem. Leather spine & corners, marbled paper boards. Gilt title and tooling decorations to spine. Marbled text block. 19 hand-coloured plates plus title page. Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Marbling to text block fading. Front hinge cracked. Contents grubby. All plates are present, nice and bright but margins browned.

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