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1871ref. DEMO016223IChicago Cincinnati Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co. 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 folding maps 44 woodcuts. Octavo 450 ii pages; in the scarcer contemporary full sheep rebacked with new leather with original black morocco spine label. One of the two contemporary popular book-length accounts of the fire of October 1871 known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. Jewel V25. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps 44 woodcuts. Union Publishing Co. hardcover
1925ref. 11052NY: The Camp Fire Girls Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Second Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. Light soil to the covers. Owner's name at the top of the front cover and on the rear cover. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 223 pages . The Camp Fire Girls, Inc. paperback
1871ref. 0008835Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co. 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 folding maps 44 woodcuts. Octavo; 450 irregular pagination ii pages; embossed original green cloth One of the two contemporary popular book-length accounts of the fire of October 1871 known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. Jewel V25. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps 44 woodcuts. Includes a poem "Chicago" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Men said at vestpers: All is well ! / In one wild night the city fell". Union Publishing Co. hardcover
1938ref. 12308Portland Oregon: The Portland Fire Department Drill School. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Card Covers. Library card covers. Minimal library markings. ; Mimeographed series of pamplets bound as one with string ties. Covers a range of info for new firefighters. We are unlikely to see another one of these. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall . The Portland Fire Department Drill School unknown
1970ref. 042158Dallas Fire Department 1970. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. First Edition/First Printing. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A square solid tight clean carefully used copy. Full Leather binding with brass decorations pressed to both covers illustrated end papers. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Former owner's name H. C. Seeley who was a Chief in 1970 neatly to the title page. Dallas Fire Department Hardcover
ref. R3-9DA7-9TQ1Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION Paris: Tresse Libraire Succeseur de Barba 1843. Hardcover in later leather and marbled boards. 8vo 4 vii 1 460 pages. The first edition of this interesting study on dogs in cultural history and literature. 19th c inscription on t.p. scattered foxing else good overall condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. froc hardcover
1949ref. 142756New York: City of New York 1949/50. 799 pp. Quarto. Bound ledger in bound in original black cloth covered boards. Quite worn and soiled but generally very good in the interior. It would appear Engine Company No. 75 is in the Bronx. It would appear this is the ledger where details of events the Fire Dept. attended were recorded. The records are detailed and provide how signals were received and down to how much water was used. A very interesting record just after the war in the history of the New City Fire Department. Amazing this record showed up in Canada. 1949 City of New York hardcover
ref. Z1-V-027-00816The Stationery Office Books. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. The Stationery Office Books unknown
1981ref. 307560Taylor Publishing Co. Fine. 1981. 1st Edition. 120 pp; First Edition limit to 600 copies this being #507. Book has pages unmarked and no names bound in red faux leather. A nice clean tight and very attractive book. . Taylor Publishing Co. hardcover
ref. biblio951339New NFPA (distributed by Delmar, Cengage Learning)
ref. 4453028-59 pages each. 9x6" printed wrappers. Officers Tables of Insuance Losses by Occupancy Causes Limitation of Fires Construction of Buildings List of Fires with Losses in Excess of $10000 Block Inspectors &c. 2 wraps tape repaired owner name few covers bit soiled rubbed else VG. paperback
ref. 128612Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. A-70-7TH A-70-7TH circa 1927. stiff paper covers Very good. 41pp. An illustrated catalog of revolvers automatic pistols and price list of component parts. Also laid in is a pink sheet PL-11-R Price list March 1927. There is a previous owner's name stamped on each item. Weapons Automatic Pistols Catalogs Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Firearms Pistols Revolvers. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. A-70-7TH Paperback
1903ref. 000006bBoston Massachusetts MA. Fair. 1903. Hardcover. Wonderful all handwritten 9" x 11" hardback daily hour by hour journal from an unspecified fire department but almost certainly Boston. Dated July 1903 through Oct. 1903. The day of horse drawn fire engines. 300 pages. No missing pages. The log is written in black ink with all the fire calls written in red ink. Contains information on the care of the engines and horses roll call who's in charge of meals who's absent and on vacation fire call addresses and names of all the fire men etc etc. Items too numerous to mention. A typical days entry: Sunday Oct 4th 1903. 12am York relieved Ryan on house patrol. 1am Water in Engine 38 and 39 at 4th and 3rd gauge . Steam at 100 lbs. 2am Hart relieved York on house patrol. 3am 3 and 4 G's of water in engines 38 and 39. Steam 95 lbs 4am Heaters OK. Patrol completed York and Hart. 4am Burke relieved Hart on house patrol. 6:45am Morning call struck. 7am Lt. Lynch Marden Ryan Doughtery Burke Gilligan to breakfast. 7:25am Received alarm from box 38 Tapper and Gong. Engine 39 responded to fire at #70 Long Wharf. Connected to hydrant opposite 62 Long Wharf. Company services not required. Reports to Chief Cheswell and ordered to quarters by same. 1 officer and 5 men responded with apparatus. 2 officers and 6 men responded to fire. While responding to the above alarm horse #677 was injured by colliding with post of elevated structure receiving injuries that caused him to be killed. Company returned. Absent 35 minutes. Other entry: Responded to Railroad car #355 in NY NH & H railroad yard caused by fierce exploding company. Used 1 extinguisher. Another entry: Still alarm for fire inside building #33 and 37 Wormwood St. Engine 39 hose wagon responded to fire on 2nd floor. Run 200 feet of hose from hydrant on Wormwood St and passed water 5 minutes. Absent 55 minutes. THIS IS A WONDERFUL ONE OF A KIND FIREFIGHTER HISTORICAL ITEM. Most of the pages are loose with yellowing on the edges with some tatters. The spine is missing and taped.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Hand Written Personal Americana Memoir Fire Department Fireman Fire Stations Public Service Arson Handwritten hand written autograph autographs signed letters document documents manuscript manuscripts writers writer author holograph personal Americana Firefighters Fireman BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS MA . hardcover
ref. 012206Cincinnati: Ahrens-Fox N.d. 1935 A detailed sales presentation for the 75 ft. Tower Aerial Ladder Truck manufactured by the company. With detailed specifications for engine truck and fire fighting equipment. With additional hand-written specifications salesman's notes price etc. With a list of cities and towns using Aherns-Fox equipment. Illustrated from five real photographs of the apparatus being demonstrated against a six-story building each photograph with onion-skin overlay. No date but 1935 in pencil among the notes. 28 cm; 29 pp. printed recto only; illustrated with five photographs and two plates showing cut-away views of truck engine. Some writing to cover other notes on spec. pages; else a very good copy brad-bound in wrappers. Trade Catalog. Cincinnati: Ahrens-Fox, N.d. [1935] unknown
1940ref. 10799.336Chicago: National Board Of Fire Underwriters 1940. Wrappers. Octavo. ii 29 pages. Fine. Scarce World War II booklet highlighting vulnerabilities of ports piers and wharves in the U. S. and suggesting many improved practice requirements. The primary threat was fire--either by accident or sabotage--with the danger being greatly multiplied by the wartime congestion of vessels in the water and cargo on the piers at major ports. Prepared for the U. S. Coast Guard. Lots of interesting information. Bound in printed blue paper covers saddle-stapled binding. Tiny tear to edge of front cover at head of spine faint browning toward edges of covers. National Board Of Fire Underwriters unknown
1998ref. Lgk5Rainbow Light & Company Angel 1998. Book. As New. Soft cover. Rainbow Light & Company, Angel Paperback
1928ref. 26874A & C Black London 1928 HBDJ 1928 Early Vintage Edition VG-/GOOD- AS-IS Hard Cover. Book Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition:GOOD- . 8vo. Dust jacket loss to edges especially btm front DJ SMALL HORIZONTAL THIN PIECE out but most Illustration Intact price clipped. THICK Red cloth with black Titling & DECORSTINS fading to top edge. Previous owner's inscription on ffep Light foxing spots. 280 pages NO ADS in Back clean and tight LIGHT INTERIOR WEAR FOX. DJ Protected clear Mylar SPINE CVR TOP END Small Wear Chips NOT Affecting Title DJ Extremities small chips TEARS Creases DJ SPINE ENDS SMALL CHIPS WHICH AFFECT WORD BLACK AT BTM BACK DJ SMALL CREASES TEARS EDGES Lists thru the Tiger Back Inner DJ Flaps Lists thru Creatures That walk. also includes Crew of Number Five Among Head Hunters In Deasdly Peril etc THE LATE JOHN FINNEMORE knew what boys like and his death-cutting short his activity with the pen-was a great loss to every boys' library. In this volume there appear young Britons of the sterling type who know not fear but who face odds in the Australian bush on the high seas in Burma in Manchuria in South Africa and in old Russia and by the sheer audacity of their high courage almost invariably come off victorious. Much interesting information regarding the life and conditions in these various countries will be gleaned while reading the gripping chapters. A volume in Black's Boys Library series Boy's book set in Australia. collection of stories for boys set in Australia. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A & C Black, London, hardcover
1869ref. 14481Good HC no DJ. Brown bead-grain cloth over boards with blind stamped rules framing each cover and decorative gilt letters and design on spine. Clean lightly scuffed covers and spine; rubbed at fore corners boards just exposed; worn at spine ends with 1/4 inch cloth missing at each end; tightly bound; front hinge has been reglued causing wrinkle in end paper; owner pencil name and date 1872 on front free end paper; title page torn at hinge bottom somewhat fragile; pencil note at head of page 1; clean interior. OCLC # 55481480. Very uncommon memoir of anonymous "Christian woman of superior natural talents with respect to the nature and efficacy of prayer." Revivalist fundamentalist orientation. 12mo 165 pp. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co. hardcover
1924ref. 25756CAMP FIRE GIRLS National Headquarters NY Printed By Thos. B. Brooks Inc. 1924. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1924 Stated 1st Printing 1st Edition Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg GOOD/FAIR Condition AS-IS NOJACKET Small Flexible Grey or Teal Cloth Buckram Boards Titled in Black cvr with Much Creases & Light Tears Wear Front & Extremites Spine Cvr light wear Scuff & Edge Tears Small Tears up & Down Spine Cvr edges Approx 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. Interior nice tight clean light wear FoX & pg with Crease & Clear Tape Mend at bottom area 190 pgs INDEX Spreckling & Creasing to backcover. Few pgs with some penciling or tiny Edge tears .Vintage photographs of girls in their uniforms doing activies chapters on the theory of Camp Fire Organization Program making The Council Fire Health Standards and Finances. First Edition. Hard Cover. CAMP FIRE GIRLS National Headquarters NY Printed By Thos. B. Brooks, Inc. hardcover