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General wear, stained endpapers, good gilt lettering to spine, loose spine, contains BW illustrations, light staining to edges DATE PUBLISHED: 1901 EDITION: 5TH ED 160. Seller Inventory # 128245
Title: Stories of the Fire Brigade, With a Chapter ...
Publisher: SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
Publication Date: 1901
Binding: HARDBACK BLUE
Edition: 5TH ED.
Seller: Nimbus, Norwich, United Kingdom
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fifth [5th] Edition. Decorative, embossed cloth boards (on a green ground].A square, tight, sound copy; lightly bumped extemities; spine gilt in good order; a few small blemishes and very light colour fade to boards. Pp 160, illustrated with frontis portraits and throughout the text; endpapers are uncracked; contents are age-tanned and occasionally foxed; attractive Sunday School [Caledonian Road] prize plate dated 1906 inside front cover. Images/further information availableupon request. Seller Inventory # 75362
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth Edition. Bound in blue pictorial cloth with bright, red titles and colour illustration of horse drawn steam fire engine to front board, this dated 1899 Fourth Edition is VG. 160pp with Preface, 19 Chapters and 26 illustrations. Frontis shows photo of 1899 Fire Chiefs from six UK cities. Photo page 31 of The "Metropolitan" steam fire engine at Merryweathers Fire Station. Poem entitled "The Brave Fireman" on page 10. Slight fading to blank apge margins, partially removed prize label (School Board of London) to front fixed endpaper, otherwise VG. Seller Inventory # 0013552
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Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Undated. 160pp, several black and white engravings. Illustrated red cloth-covered boards, red titles on front, reverse gilt titles on spine. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Sun-faded front board and spine, rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Free endpapers starting to tan; blind-embossed stamp with previous owner's details on front free endpaper. Gutters cracked and very strained in middle of volume, very loose otherwise internally neat, clean and bright. Seller Inventory # 026247
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Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: ACC/GD+/ND. y 3rd. Edition 1st. Imp. HARDBACK " ILLUSTRATED BOARDS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: pre 1899.* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated glazed cloth covers on a blue ground showing horse drawn fire engine on call. Black title to spine on simulated gold spine label. Red title to face. No bumps, slight rubs to corners & head and tail of spine, very slightly aged. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Green patterned end papers. Some damage & ageing to fep. ?Regular school attendance? dedication to ffep dated Whitsuntide 1899. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, some slight marks to text, sectional sewn binding loose in places. Some pencil scribbles to text. ACC* Illustrations: B/w photographic frontis showing a number of fire chiefs. A number of b/w photo-litho illustrations, prints and line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. text.* Description: This is one of the volumes in ?Stories? series from The Sunday School Union which includes volumes on The Far West, The Coal Mine, North Pole Adventure & The Lifeboat. Chapters cover The Fire Brigade, The Fire Engine, The London Fire Brigade at Work, Through The Flames, The Story of a Great Fireman, A Whitechapel Hero, The Heroic Deed of Alice Ayres, Engineer Dave, Whitely?s Great Fire, With The Liverpool Fire Brigade, With The Manchester Fire Brigade, A Deed of Valour and Mercy, With The Birmingham Fire Brigade, With The Leeds Fire Brigade, With The Hull Fire Brigade, Firemen?s Dogs, American Fire Brigades, Famous Fires, Forest Fires.* A GOOD copy with some faults but no dust jacket.* 1901-01-01. n. Seller Inventory # 4127
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