Unknown London by Walter George Bell

Spring Books, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Spring Books, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. Second Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Stamp to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

THE BODLEY HEAD, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. This Edition. 334 pages. Brown dust jacket over blue cloth and gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Tape marks to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has light edge-wear with closed tears and creasing. Dust jacket is in removable protective cover.

Spring Books, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A charming look at historical events from throughout London's history, from a long-tenured newspaperman. First published in this edition in1966, with 5 additional chapters by editor E.R.Wethersett to replace a few pieces removed from the original for various reasons. Apparent first of this edition, VG in an easily VG jacket, in protective mylar. Jacket is price clipped, Front free endpaper also clipped, perhaps to remove gift inscription or previous owner's name. Book contains occasional neat pencil underlining that could be easily erased.

MP3 Audio CD. Unknown London Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen ?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others. … The City of London — the innermost "square mile" — is the richest ground for historical associations in all our world Empire, and the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Unknown London Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen ?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others. … The City of London — the innermost "square mile" — is the richest ground for historical associations in all our world Empire, and the… Read More

John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1919. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page. Some pages uncut throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dents to front board edges. Wear marks overall.

London: Spring Books, 1966. 330pp + index, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Scar to front of jacket from old sticker removal, a couple of tiny edge tears. The 1951 volume combining Unknown London and More About Unknown London is brought 'up to date' with the addtion of 5 new chapters and 24 pages of illustrations.. New Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Spring Books. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. 330pp + 6pp index, illustrated, bound in black cloth, with VG dustwrapper; Octavo .