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Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 2000, 6th impression of first edition. Grey cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, under illustrated dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.25ins, endpapers depicting London Bridge, xxiii, (i), 822pp plus 32pp plates (16 in colour). Also a few other illustrations within the text. Dw creased to head of spine. VG / G+
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New York: Anchor Books/Random House, (2000). 5th Paperback Printing. Fine in heavy printed paper wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. 801 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with photographs, maps and reproductions of earlier works of art. "Two thousand years of London's history and folklore...."
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(London: Chatto & Windus, 2000) 1856197166. 8vo; original grey boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. xxiv + 822, incl. index; plates; illustrations in text. Light foxing to edges. Very good condition. "Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so his LONDON is a 'biography' not a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Anecdotal, brilliant…
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LONDON The Biography
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LONDON: VINTAGE, 2001 Larger format chunky Epic P/b VG+. 822pp.no inscsp, pages clean throughout.not clipped..Peter Ackroyd author of historic fiction / poetry / criticism / biographies - TS Eliot / Dickens / Blake / Thomas Moore etc.Profusely illustrated 36 b/w plates+32 in colour & line illust throughout text.79 chpts , chronology , Maps , ackns;,Essay on sources [ History / Social history ] tight binding, clean copy, no inscsp. several light crease lines to spine. 1st ed thus- Vintage p/b 2001. PLS see our image
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Chatto & Windus, 2000. 1856197166. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered grey cloth (page edges lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, price clipped). Pp. xxiii + 822, illus with coloured and b&w plates and b&w maps (no inscriptions).
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London. The Biography. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
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Chatto & Windus,, [2000]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 33 coloured plates on 16, 32 monochrome plates on 16, 3 full-page maps (2 double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Splendid account enlivened by the author's infectious belief in the close relationship between past and present. Published a month after the first edition.
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