PIMP London: The Guide
The Definitive Guide to London for Global Style Hunters
2008
PIMP London: The Guide is a Prestel-published 2008 city and culture guide developed from the PIMP editorial world. It presents London area by area through bars and clubs, shopping, art and culture, street-style imagery and interviews with figures including D*Face, Klaxons, The Teenagers, Akiko Matsuura and Nova Dando.
Read the catalogue note →- Creator
- Briony Quested (editor)
- Publisher
- Prestel
- Edition / printing
- 2008 Prestel edition; exact printing not verified from the supplied physical views
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 3791338846
- ISBN-13
- 9783791338842
- Format
- Illustrated softcover guidebook
- Pagination
- 157 pages in OBNB and musicMagpie; some commercial bibliographic listings state 160 pages
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− — structurally sound, with pronounced cover handling wear and creasing
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages/components assumed present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing issued component has been reported
Catalogue note
PIMP's commercially published guide to London, documenting the city's late-2000s bars, clubs, independent retail, art spaces, street style, music, fashion and street-art networks through area guides, photography and interviews.
Credit / attribution note: Rear cover: edited by Briony Quested. Contents list interviews with “AKIKO” (p.113) and “NOVA” (p.75); the user has resolved these relationships to Akiko Matsuura and Nova Dando respectively. Craig Hanel-Thomson and Nosca Northfield are also user-confirmed significant People relationships for this physical object; no unsupported specific role is inferred from the supplied views.
Edition / bibliographic note: Bibliographic sources identify a 2008 Prestel edition and some commercial listings describe it as a first edition. Exact printing is not asserted because the copyright/edition page was not supplied.
Condition note: Covers show substantial handling wear, surface rubbing, scuffing, edge and corner wear and localized creasing/rippling; photographed contents are comparatively clean and the binding appears intact.
Preserved discrepancies / uncertainties: Pagination conflicts across external catalogues: OBNB and musicMagpie state 157 pages, while some commercial listings state 160 pages. The discrepancy is preserved rather than silently normalised.
Research status: Physical ISBN and Prestel imprint matched to the OBNB record. Publication year 2008 is verified; exact printing and physical pagination remain unconfirmed from the supplied photographs.
Why this object matters
The 2008 guide freezes a specific London network of nightlife, independent shops, art and street style. Its documentary relationship to the archive's PIMP and club material makes it an outstanding period reference despite its commercial-guide form; exact printing remains unverified.
Evidence limits: Complete — all pages/components assumed present under the standing TMR completeness rule; no missing issued component has been reported
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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