MORE THAN A CENTURY: Of Peoria People, Progress and Pride. by Kathleen Gilbert. (Phoenix, Az: Heritage Publishers, Inc., 2004). First edition. Generously illustrated with color and b w photographs on almost every page. Quality book production with a handsome binding and coated-stock pages. The author draws on extensive research and interviews, an official historic resource survey, the Peroria Historical Society and more for this delightful illustrated history with a bounty of interesting facts and details. Fine, firm and crisp in polished blue linen with gilt embossed titles and Peoria City illustrated insignia to the front cover, and with gilt embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band; no dust jacket, as issued. Oblong quarto, 9.5" X 10.25"; 93 pages, plus preliminaries. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!