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Ye Olde Fire Laddies
by Herbert Asbury
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Unjacketed
- Seller
-
Cazenovia, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1930 quarterbound hardcover as pictured. A nice copy of Herbert Asbury's informal history of firefighting in New York City. Includes many illustrations as well as twentyfive pages of notes and index. Binding is firm. Black cloth spine with red and gold stamping is worn with slight fraying at top edge. Pictorial paper boards are rubbed with gently bumped corners. Front matter is foxed. Rough cut text is age tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. A number of pages have small chips or tears at fore edge where uncut pages have been separated. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2792
- Title
- Ye Olde Fire Laddies
- Author
- Herbert Asbury
- Format/Binding
- See Description
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- Unjacketed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Pages
- 188 plus 25 pages of notes and index
- Size
- 6x8.5
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- New York City, Firefighting, Firemen, Fire Trucks
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York City; Firefighting;
Terms of Sale
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Return guarantee with full refund, including shipping costs, for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
Biblio member since 2018
Cazenovia, New York
About Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library
We are a group of volunteers supporting our local library. All proceeds go to the library. We strive for excellent customer service. Please contact us with any questions. If you are in the area you may also visit our store, Carriage Barn Books, adjacent to the library at 100 Albany Street Cazenovia NY
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- New
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- Uncut Pages
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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