GEORGES LARAQUE - The Story of the NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy by Laraque, Georges (with Pierre Thibeault) - 2011

Toronto: Viking Canada, 2011. 346 pp. Personalized inscription on the title page by Georges Laraque. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine; gray endpapers; headband; illustrated with mostly colour plates. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. The Contents are: The Good Example; The Belt and the Welts; Life Sentence; From Racism to the First Draft; Tormentors, Thank You; Playing with the Real Men. Maybe; Out of the Nightmare; Twenty-five Seconds and the World Would Change; An Established Player; On the Road to the Lockout and the Most Beautiful Season of My Life; Back to the NHL; From the Desert to the Penguins; Back to Where I Come From; Haiti, Mon Amour; In Other People's Shoes; Of Money and Businesses; The Green Giant; The Press and Me; Of Skating and Other Hobbies; and To You Two.; followed by an epilogue and an index.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Book.