Very good, 1948 1st edition, unclipped dust jacket with yellow clothbound boards, gilt text on spine all pages are clean and crisp no marks or markings the spine is tight and secure.no foxing, d/j a little grubby. A lovely copy with eight beautiful colour plates. sold and posted in the UK These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London. But this fantasy centres, in fact, round a forgotten artist, Alfred Concanen, the greatest of the designers of the old music-hall song covers, as the reader may judge for himself from the reproductions in colour of his lithographs, to which are added, in appendix, two drawings by a nameless French tutor in an English family, depicting late night life in the West End. The eighteen-sixties are a favouri