Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: ".a true picture of London life, cadging made easy, the He-She man, doings of the modern Greeks, snooking kens depicted, the common lodging house gallants, lessons to lovers of dice, the gaming table etc. Embellished with humorous illustrations by George Cruikshank." The original pebble-grained cloth covers have soot darkening to the spine, one inch near top, and one inch along the fore-edge of the front cover. Some darkening also to top and fore-edge of textblock. Internally a very good copy with the hand-coloured fold-out frontispiece present. Smaller woodcut illustrations in text. An excellent candidate for rebinding or restoration. Scarce.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece, 131p. Publishers original crocodile patterned cloth. This is a later reprint because it includes the ad for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' at the end of the book. A title which was published in 1885. Slight tear along the upper part of the rear cover hinge. Small chips at the head band otherwise internally clean.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Contempoary cloth backed marbled boards, front board cleanly detached, light age toning internally. Color frontis, illustrations by Cruikshank. 131pp. An attractively illustrated version of Dens of London Exposed (1835). Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: George Cruikshank. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 046008.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SINKS OF LONDON LAID OPEN: Pocket Companion For the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing All the Vant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now In Vogue with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the whole forming a true picture of London Life., first edition, 131pp, 1p publisher advert, 1 hand-coloured folding plate, humorous vignettes and illustrations in text by George Cruikshank, very occasional spotting, recently bound in half maroon leather and marbled boards, matching endpapers, banded spine with gilt-decoration and lettering. Size: 7.75 x 5 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Price: US$363.93 + shipping
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 132; folding coloured frontispiece, text with numerous line drawings, bound in original pebble-grained cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 131 (1)pp. Original tan patterned cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Yellow endpapers. Folding frontispiece in color. "The whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Die, the Gaming Table, etc." Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Flash dictionary at rear. Advertisement of publisher on last page. Binding with light wear along edges, rubbed. Numbered paper-sticker at tail of spine and inside front cover. Lightly starting at pages 72 and 80. Block lightly age-toned.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$439.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition (under this title) of a colorful guide to London's underbelly in the mid-1800s. Crown 8vo (182 x 109mm): 131,[1]pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece (dated March 22, 1822) and woodcuts throughout by George Cruikshank. Original crocodile-textured dark beige cloth, spine titled in gilt ("The Dens of London"), pale yellow coated end papers. An excellent example (minor nick to cloth), tightly bound and clean throughout. Goldsmiths'-Kress 35898. Not in Cohn. Apparently a duplicate, with new title page, of The Dens of London Exposed (the running title of this copy), first published in 1822. The 35-page canting dictionary appear at rear. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$562.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. 131, [1]; folding color lithograph frontis, a number of small wodcut illustrations in the text; very good in publisher's quarter green morocco over marbled boards; spine faded and slightly rubbed, else very good. Originally published in 1822, this reprint edition does not do justice to the Cruikshank illustrations. The 35-p. canting dictionary is at the back.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$635.78 + shipping
Description: 8vo., orig. patterned tan cloth, 131pp. With a folding frontispiece in colour. Bookpate o/w a fine copy. Goldsmith-Kress no. 35898.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada