New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953. First Edition,. First Printing Near fine in dark blue buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and with gilt decorations stamped on the front board. A quarto measuring 12" by 9" with a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. In a good+, unclipped dust jacket with heavy wear and rubbing to the extremes. From the dust jacket flap: "Footprints of Assurance is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three countries." 319 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colored plates.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB26057
Title: Footprints of Assurance
Author: Bulau, Alwin E
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition,
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1953

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Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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