Mayhew Henry Edited (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good minus. Very Good minus. Reprint. Originally issued by William Kimber in London in 1951. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 360 pages, gilt spine titles, brown cloth, sewn binding. A very good, generally clean hardcover edition with light shelf wear and rubbing, light stain and evidence of sticker removal on front endpapers, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with several small surface stains at bottom fore-edges. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 592pp Heavy book extra overseas post.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: Introduction; Foreword; PROSTITUTION IN LONDON - General Remarks; Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; The Prostitutes of the Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; The Dependants of Prostitutes; Bawds; Followers of Dress-Lodgers; Keepers of Accommodation Houses; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; Cohabitant Prostitutes; Narrative of a Gy Woman at the West End of the Metropolis; Criminal Returns; and Traffic in Foreign Women. THEIVES AND SWINDLERS - Introduction; The Sneaks, or Common Thieves; Stealing from Street-stalls; Stealing from the Tills; Stealing from the Doors and Windows of Shops; Stealing from Children; Child Stripping; Stealing from Drunken Persons; Stealing Linen, etc., exposed to dry; Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles; Stelaing Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys; Robberies by Lodgers, Robberies by Servants; Area and Lobby Sneaks; Stealing by Lifting Up Windows or Breaking Glass, Attic or Garret Theives; A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood; Narrative of a London Sneak, or Common Thief; Pickpockets and Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters; A Visit to the Theives' Den in Spitalfields; Narrative of a Pickpocket; Horse and Dog Stealers; Horse-stealing; Dog-stealing; Highway Robbers; A Ramble among the Theives' Dens in the Borough; House breakers and Burglars; Narrative of a Burglar; Narrative of another Burglar; Felonies on the River Thames; The Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys; Sellers of Small Wares; Labourers on Board Ship etc.,; Dredgmen and Fishermen; Smuggling; Felonies by Lightermen; The River Priates; Narrative of a Mudlark; Receivers of Stolen Property; Dolly Shops; Pawnbrokers, etc.; Narrative of a Returned Convict; Coining Forgers; Bank Notes; Cheques; Forged Acceptance; Forged Wills; Cheats; Embezzlers; Magsmen, or Sharpers; The Chard Tricks; Skittles; Thimble and Pea; The Lock; Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS - Begging-Letter Writers; Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar; Clean Family Beggar; Naval and Military Beggars; Turnpike Sailor; Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars: A Shipwrecked Mariner; Blown-up Miners; Burnt-out Tradesmen; Lucifer Droppers; Bodily Afflicted Beggars; Seventy Years a Beggar; Having Swollen Legs; Cripples; A Blind Beggar; Beggars Subject to Fits; Being in a Decline; Shallow Coves; Famished Beggars; The Choking Dodge; The Offal Eater; Petty Trading Beggars; An Author's Wife; Dependants of Beggars; Distressed Operative Beggars: Starved Out Manufacturers; Unemployed Agriculturalists and Frozen Out Gardeners; and Hand-loom Weavers. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. 1st edition thus, F/NF. Book has very little wear. DJ has some light wear to upper corners and spine ends. Illustrated with many b & w drawings (a few photos) and 8 pages of color plates. Includes intro by Asa Briggs and 4 appendices: costermonger slang, Sunday morning markets, money and "coster districts". Subtitle: The classic account of London street life and characters in the time of Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria. Originally published in 1861, mostly through illustrated newspaper accounts. Nice copy.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Thus. Trade paperback, 489 pages including 8 Figures and 20 black-and-white Plates within the text, plus an additional 12 Plates (32 in total, numbered as I - XXXII); tiny traces of shelf wear along edges, spine sun faded, spine and covers flat/uncreased, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout, unread, almost as new except as stated. Illustrated (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Sixth impression including an intact dust jacket in decent shape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Virtually as new.

Condition: Good. 360 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hard Cover. Fifth Impression, 1965. Very good; top portion of backstrip is faded due to large chip in the dj. 'Being Selections From Those That Will Not Work, the fourth volume of London Labour and The London Poor, by Henry Mayhew'. Illus. with sketches. 427pp. (loc 261).

Condition: Good. paperback, xxxii,591pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, a slight crease on front cover corners, spine not creased, Good condition. ISBN: 0140432418.

Condition: VG. 1984. Originally published 1851. Blue Cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic BRODART cover. Original price Sterling to front endflap. 592pp. Selections from London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew. VG/VG. Pages clean. Binding sound. Dust Jacket has minor edgewear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, small spot on bottom edge of text, otherwise without flaw 6 X 9" 427 pages, weight 1 Kg, published 1987. First published in 1862, this is a remarkably vivid picture of an aspect of Victorian life that few other writers of the age had dared to examine: the teeming underworld of 19th-century London. A mine of odd and intriguing information, throwing valuable sidelights on the feelings of guilt and state of moral tension that underlays the apparent sanctimoniousness of so much Victorian literature. Line Drawings and Engravings (illustrator).…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Originally published in 1861. Source used by Charles Dickens. "London Labour and the London Poor" is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the….

First Thus. First published in 1862, this book wonderfully surveys all the various low-lifes of the period.: prostitutes, thieves, and beggars. Solid clean tight copy of 1st. Rare. 6 x 8-1/4, 427 pp, full-pg b/w illus. VeryGood unmarked, sunned spine. Hardcover in pale blue cloth boards, no jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Hardback. Some foxing to page edges. Wear and tear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Undated. Fading to spine and boards. Binding strong.

Hardback. Hardback. xvii,535pp. A substantial selection of 'characters and crooks' drawn from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor and from Mayhew's London edited by Peter Quennell. 20 illustrations. Olive green cloth decorated in black and gilt with a design by David Eccles. Black slipcase. Very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase. …

Hardback. Hardback. xvii,535pp. A substantial selection of 'characters and crooks' drawn from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor and from Mayhew's London edited by Peter Quennell. 20 illustrations. Olive green cloth decorated in black and gilt with a design by David Eccles. Black slipcase. Very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase. …

Hardback. Hardback. xvii,535pp. A substantial selection of 'characters and crooks' drawn from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor and from Mayhew's London edited by Peter Quennell. 20 illustrations. Olive green cloth decorated in black and gilt with a design by David Eccles. Black slipcase. Very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Condition: Good. USED. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Dustjacket. Selected from "London Labour and the London Poor" which was first published in 1851. 360 pages. ND.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st thus. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition with slipcase. An excellent copy. Sepia-toned photographs taken from John Thomson's Street Life in London published between 1877 and 1878. Slipcase has several tiny nicks to opening edge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 535pages. Between 1851 to 1862 journalist, Henry Mayhew, published his masterpieces 'London Labour and the London Poor' which detailed the realities of East End life in the middle of the nineteenth century, the day to day existence of the poor, the oppressed, the hardworking and the criminal, the pious and lascivious, their sorrows and hopes, the ways they thought and talked and how they passed their days and night.…

[0-600-0245-6] [1969]. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 592pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Edited by Peter Quennell. Locale: ; London. (History--England, Social History).

[no date]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 360pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Edited by Peter Quennell. Locale. (History--England, Social History).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Selections from ' Those That Will Not Work' the fourth volume of 'London Labour and the London Poor' by Henry Mayhew - first published 1862 - 427 pages with illustrations - green cloth boards - spine slightly bumped top and tail - top text block age discoloured - other edges clean - dustwrapper protected with clear slip - bumped corners and small tears visible around edges - price clipped - front pastedown has blank label covering earlier inscription - eraser marks at top of front endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Edited & introduced by Christopher Hibbert. Illustrated with b&w photographs (20 photographic full-page plates, including frontispiece). Includes index. First published by The Folio Society in 1996, this copy is the Fourth printing, 2010. Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Memminger MedienCentrum AG, Memmingen, Germany. Bound in publisher's original olive pictorial boards (full buckram, printed & blocked in black & gilt with a design by David Eccles), brown endpapers, top edge grey. NO SLIPCASE. No dustjacket issued. A FINE very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. xvii + 535pp. Heavy thick book, extra shipping may be required. SB-13.…

ILLUSTRATED DECORATIVE CLOTH. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. THIRD FOLIO SOCIETY PRINTING. SOLID & CLEAN, NO MARKINGS; WOULD RATE FINE BUT HAS A FEW COFEE STAINS AT BOTTOM EDGES OF PAGES. 535 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. 336 pages with 12 full page plates from original wood-cuts. Crimson cloth, black lettering, dustwrapper a little rubbed at extremes, but clean and all tight. *The book has been edited down, originally part of a 3 volume set published between 1851-62. The author was co-founder of Punch and a good journalist and wrote like one, 2 of his brothers were also writers, one became sub-editor of Punch, friends of Charles Dickens and may have some influence on his stance on poverty and voice for "improvement". He also remarkably, recorded voices in their natural narrative that still seem as alive today as the day they spoke to him. At the time some of the street traders formed an association to stop the itinerants from talking to him as they felt their lives were being in some ways "ridiculed". But they weren't, far from it. Truth often hurts. 41 Miniature autobiographies collected in this edition.…

No date. Spring Books. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG, edgewear. 8x6. 360pp. 12 b/w illus including frontis.