GHOSTS OF PICCADILLY by Street, G. S - 1907

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Loose hinge. Former owner's name inside front cover. Writing on title page. Pages shows minor tanning.

London: Constable & Company Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Spine faded. Endpapers slightly foxed. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First US Edition. Hardcover. Early owner name and date on endpaper. .

Constable and Company, 1914. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1914. Reprinted. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Mild sunning to spine and edges. White sticker to spine. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth.

Constable and Co., 1914. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1914. Reprinted. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. 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. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Book. VG+. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue cloth, front cover title cartouche and spine panel lettering in gilt, deckled edges, top edge in gilt. Mildly rubbed spine extremities and corners. Nicely preserved. xiii,287 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Several former owner signatures on front flyleaf, including Christmas 1907 gift inscription, confirming year of publication. Light, neat, scattered annotations and/or marginal bracketings in pencil, at most a distraction. Strong VG+, close to Near Fine..

London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1907. . 1st edition (?). 8vo. Hardback. Blue cloth, gilt embossed lettering and border. Uncut page edges. Frontispiece, tissue guard. Complete with 12 plates (including frontispiece), each with tissue guard. Contents: 10cm x 6cm triangular shape water-stain to first few free endpaper corners and frontispiece corner. Endpapers browned. A few plate corners have a similar size water-stain. Otherwise the pages are generally very good and clean. Binding a little fragile in places, but inner hinges tight. Boards: a few small closed nicks and a little fraying to top and base of spine. Light to moderate rubbing to edges and corners. One corner a little bumped. Otherwise generally very good and bright. 287 pp.

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

MP3 Audio CD. The Ghosts of Piccadilly by G. S. Street is not a spooky ghost story ? it is simply an entertaining and well-written collection of biography fragments, pieces of gossip and letters by and about people who once lived in one of London?s oldest districts, as well as stories of buildings in the area, some of which no longer exist.The book was first published in London, then in New York, in 1907, and it attracted interest immediately due to its interesting, but light topic and also due to Street?s characteristic, humorous, satiric, often cynical, but also sympathetic style. Some fragments of the book had been previously published in The Monthly Review, while others appeared in Putnam?s Monthly, but some of the pieces were written for this book and were never published anywhere else before.The Ghosts of Piccadilly is practically a personal history of the street and the square ? the author pays tribute to the great men and women who used to live in the old houses. The collection tells the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Ghosts of Piccadilly by G. S. Street is not a spooky ghost story ? it is simply an entertaining and well-written collection of biography fragments, pieces of gossip and letters by and about people who once lived in one of London?s oldest districts, as well as stories of buildings in the area, some of which no longer exist.The book was first published in London, then in New York, in 1907, and it attracted interest immediately due to its interesting, but light topic and also due to Street?s characteristic, humorous, satiric, often cynical, but also sympathetic style. Some fragments of the book had been previously published in The Monthly Review, while others appeared in Putnam?s Monthly, but some of the pieces were written for this book and were never published anywhere else before.The Ghosts of Piccadilly is practically a personal history of the street and the square ? the author pays tribute to the great men and women who used to live in the old houses. The collection tells the… Read More