CASTLES & KINGS

Polar Bear Press, Toronto, ON, 2001, 1^st pr.  ISBN 1-896757-16-2.  Trade soft cover, 176 pages including Bibliography and Index.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, small corner curls, sound binding.  Inscribed to prior owner and signed by author on title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with black & white photos.  ‘Ontario Mansions and the People Who Lived in Them.  Each of these gracious old homes was built on a dream, in some cases a fantasy, that did not last.  They all have a story to tell about the families who lived in them, the communities that grew up around them and fortunes that were made and lost. … A collection of intimate stories about people and their homes, this is also an important historical report about buildings, many talked about here for the first time, that played a prominent role in the development of Ontario.’ (from rear wrap)