LIVERPOOL COLONNADE (SIGNED)

Hardback. SIGNED. So far as Liverpool is concerned this is not a history book nor a guide book, but a book ranging in time from the Prehistoric up to the 1950s in which the author invites the reader to accompany him into all manner of situations. One moment we are inside the Liver clock, on the roof of Liverpool: the next plunged more than 50ft below the earth, walking the long deserted kingdom of the eccentric Joseph Williamson, the Gargantuan human mole. Strange characters stalk its pages; old Doctor Samuel Solomon, who made a Balm of Gilead and a fortune, Sarah Biffin, the armless wonder, George Archer-Shee, real-life original of the "Windslow Boy" and Spring-Heeled Jack, the leaping terror of Everton. These, and a score of other bizarre shades are successfully invoked by the author. Also includes two chapters on James and Florence Maybrick. With an original Frontis. by Constance L. Fidler and Photographic illustrations by George Fisher. 305pp. 8vo. h/back. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN. Includes loosely inserted HANDWRITEN Compliment slip from Richard + SIGNED Christmas card. Red cloth/bright gilt lettering to sp. Foxed top edge, other edges lightly browned o/w Nr. F. in Vg+ protected pcdw. Author's first book.