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1932. First Edition. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracked at the board gutters. Binding remains firm. Split to rear end paper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1704978893BIL
Titel: City of Encounters
Verlag: Constable
Erscheinungsdatum: 1932
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Anbieter: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1932. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Spine and rear cover are very faded; other fading to some other edges. Foxing to outer page edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2135185
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", blue cloth, 372pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, spine a little sunned, pp toned, in a rubbed and edge-chipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21-0497
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Chase Rare Books, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. BURKE, Thomas. City of Encounters: A London Divertissement. London: Constable & Co., 1932. First edition. A scarce title on London from a true connoisseur of the metropolis, its boroughs, streets, and inhabitants. A true London flâneur, Burke urges the reader to explore the city without guide books and maps they are useless, throw them away and wander , he writes. Mixing memoir with captivating tales about London and Londoners, Burke weaves a vivid and atmospheric story starring writers, actors, eccentrics, urchins, and other denizens of the great metropolis. In one of the chapters, Burke recalls his job at the Cazenove-Perris literary agency whose clients included H.G. Wells, Prince Kropotkin, and Ernest Shackleton. One of the most fascinating chapters features Burke s friend and Londoner, Charlie Chaplin, with an interesting analysis of the links between music hall and film. 372 pp. 8vo, original cloth, some fading to top/bottom margin of boards and spine. Some loss to the spine of dust jacket with a corresponding patch of fading to the cloth on the spine. A good copy in the attractive original dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CRB96
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. BURKE, Thomas [372] pp. Constable & Co Ltd 1932 7 3/4" x 5 5/8" Jacket design by G Hines First edition. A scarce title on London from a true connoisseur of the metropolis, its boroughs, streets, and inhabitants. A true London flâneur, Burke urges the reader to explore the city without guide books and maps they are useless, throw them away and wander , he writes. Mixing memoir with captivating tales about London and Londoners, Burke weaves a vivid and atmospheric story starring writers, actors, eccentrics, urchins, and other denizens of the great metropolis. In one of the chapters, Burke recalls his job at the Cazenove-Perris literary agency whose clients included H.G. Wells, Prince Kropotkin, and Ernest Shackleton. One of the most fascinating chapters features Burke s friend and Londoner, Charlie Chaplin, with an interesting analysis on the links between music hall and film. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19542
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