London Belongs to Me

First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 639pp. Publisher’s original green cloth boards, titles in a lighter shade of green to spine. Slight pushing and fading to spine ends. Name and date (1945) to ffe. Head of lower board scuffed. Jacket browned and rubbed; pencil mark to upper flap; chipped to edges with slight loss and a few closed tears to folds. *** An attractive first edition of this celebrated London novel. “A sprawling celebration of the comedy, the savagery, the eccentricity and the quiet heroism at the heart of London life,” according to Sarah Waters. The basis of a 1948 film and a 1977 TV adaptation.