The Ghosts of Piccadilly (First edition) First edition. by Slythe Street, George - 1907

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1907. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket.. Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1907. First edition. Book condition: very good. Beautifully bound in contemporary maroon calf. Gilt spine slightly faded. 8vo. Decorated endpapers and top edge gilt. Some very light spotting here and there. Inscribed to front pastedown "To Jules, Xmas 07" and bearing the bookplate of Sir Julius Wernher, Bart. (founder of De Beers). Frontispiece plus twelve engraved portraits with tissue guards. No dust jacket. Perhaps best known for his 1894 novel, The Autobiography of a Boy, which satirized his contemporary aesthetes Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. The Ghosts of Piccadilly is a keenly observed and beautifully written compendium of some of those who inhabited Piccadilly.