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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Signed copy. Year 1932. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Long age as I sat engrossed in the adventures of Oliver Twist the stupendous towers and flashing lights of New York and its clear frosty night air which carries so vibrantly the roar and hoot- ing of modern traffic had given way to London; a London which consisted of a wide dark river flowing through mile upon mile of crazy twisted old houses set in yellow fog; a gloomy blossoming of sudden riches surrounding a golden corolla ‘the City’ legendary as Dick Whittington to the inhabi- tants of the remoter suburbs of this undesigned conglomeration. And then too the squares of Mayfair led an isolated existence aristocratic and impersonal while as I listened I seemed almost to hear the carriages sounding out of a winter’s evening the horses clapping and stamping the yel- lowing snow that lay on the roads with that par- ticular muffled lolloping rhythm which myself can recall as a child. (LL)