Here is a small collection of eight vintage paperback books depicting London, or a district of London, in their titles and on their illustrated and photographic covers. Sensationalist snapshots and escapist fiction, lurid, exciting and cheap...
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| Published originally as 'The Stars are Dark' in 1943, this is the American edition of the tale of the British Secret Service, the spies and the counter spies.... |
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| Formerly known as 'The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal' when it first came out in 1934, this paperback version dates from 1963 |
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| Want a little ZIP in your TRIP? asks the blurb on the back cover. "It's easy in London if you know the 'right' people who swing in the 'wrong' places" |
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| She claims she started the permissive society! The full story of London's beautiful, turned-on people. It's the 1973 NEL paperback release of the '71 original. |
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| The legendary film director Sam Fuller's investigation into the life and times of the most famous squat in London at the turn of the 1970s |
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| "the twilight world of the under-privileged...touches the depths of squalor and degradation". And all for five bob. |
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| It's 1954, and here's the "The Murky Side of London...hitherto unpublished facts about dope, prostitution and blackmail". This edition was published by Panther Books in 1959. |
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| "in these six stories about London's teenagers from Asian families Farrukh Dhondy describes, through the teenagers' own eyes, their life in Britain today" (well 1976 to be exact) |
