100 Fascinating Londoners by Editor-Michael Baker; Editor-Hilary Bates Neary - 2005-11-07

Lorimer, 2005 Signed gift inscription to writer Marianne Brandis, tips gently rubbed, else fine.

Lorimer [Published Date: 2005]. Soft cover, 128 pp. No other printings listed. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Bibliography, Index. In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Following up their popular London Street Names, Michael Baker and Hilary Bates Neary present in this book stories from the lives of more than 100 people, both the influential and the infamous, who have lived near the forks of the Thames from before the city's founding to recent days. Among them are individuals who will take you to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land; to Selma, Alabama, to march alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; to home plate in the 1909 World Series; to the trenches of worn-torn France; into the bed chambers of mysteriously burgled Londoners; and even to the banks of the river Tay, for the last fatal duel in Canada.… Read More

Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd, 2005. Soft cover. Near fine. 128 p. 25 cm. 27 colour and 93 b&w illustrations. Pictorial softcover. Spine faded. Inscribed by both authors on ttle page. Includes famous citizens of London, Ontario: Paul Peel, Richard Bucke, Sir John Carling, Adam Beck, John Sackville Labatt, Jack Chambers, Evan Shute, Ray Lawson, Wilfrid Jury, John Robarts, Sandy Somerville, Greg Curnoe, Murray Barr, Hume Cronyn, and many others. Bibliography and index.

Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 2005. First edition. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.128