The Days we Knew

J. B. Booth

Verlag: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1943

Beschreibung

T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., London, 1943. From the blurb In this volume the author, the last surviving member of the staff of the famous old Sporting Times otherwise known as the Pink Un deals with the London of those two pre-war periods: its restaurants, its clubs, its theatres and music-halls, and the personalities who filled them. Many people, later to become famous in other ways, were associated with the Pink Un unknown to the general public, and in this volume will be found memories of such widely-differing types as Rudyard Kipling and Robert Sievier, Henry Irving and Sir Harry Preston. Outstanding figures in the world of the theatre, from Pavlova to Marie Lloyd; famous restaurateurs and their restaurants some now vanished from enemy action musicians and composers, from Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Sir Edward German to Jimmy Glover; and men about town of every type appear in its pages, and of each of them the author has something to tell, founded on personal knowledge. This book has 40+ plates and 30+ text illustrations, with a focus on theatre. This book, 256 pages, is in near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. It should be pointed out that this book was produced in the dark days of World war II in London, and it bears the Book Production War Economy Standard icon. This book is extremely scarce and for it to have survived in such great condition is truly amazing. Someone in Canada took good care of this book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1884

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Days we Knew

Verlag: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good