Published in London by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, this 96-page volume serves as a gritty, evocative "love letter" to the streets, subcultures, and larger-than-life characters of London's Soho district during the height of the 1960s Swining London era. The book contains 95 gritty, candid black-and-white photographs taken by Jeffrey Bernard, who was deeply embedded in the local culture and later became famous for his "Low Life" column in The Spectator. Frank Norman provides the accompanying text, structured as roughly 40 to 50 real-life vignettes. He blends personal anecdotes with local history, detailing the specific energy of streets like Old Compton, Wardour, Dean, Greek, and Berwick. It documents the distinct contrast between daytime commerce and nighttime indulgence in Soho. The imagery captures local prostitutes, strip clubs, and coffee houses, alongside traditional Italian trattorias, delicatessens, open markets, and shopkeepers. The book features iconic watering holes and clubs frequented by the era's bohemian crowd, including Muriel Belcher's colony room (Muriel's), The Rockingham, The Establishment, and The York Minster pub (popularly known as The French House). It also captures local eccentrics, gamblers, petty criminals, and street bums. Photographs by Jeffrey Bernard (who was renowned for his Low Life column in the Spectator), with insightful commentary by Frank Norman. Numerous 1960s-vintage b&w photographs of London's famed Soho area throughout. With descriptions of the illustrations at rear. Includes wonderfully evocative Sixties photographs of the Soho strip clubs, prostitutes, restaurants, trattorias & coffee houses, markets, delicatessens, Madame Floris's bakery, shopkeepers, bums, Foyles Bookshop, The York Minster & other pubs, betting shops & gambling clubs, night clubs (such as Muriel's, The Rockingham, & The Establishment), along with crime scenes, plus images of local characters throughout. Contains some mild nudity. This copy is the scarce FIRST EDITION, with "First published in England 1966" to copyright page & no later printing dates. Oblong volume. Printed in Great Britain by the Shenval Press. Bound in publisher's original b&w pictorial boards backed by black cloth spine with white lettering, pictorial endpapers. No dustjacket issued. Copy in very good condition.