Firefighting Massachusetts (2 results)

Two pieces. [8; 8 (unpaginated).] Both with photo-printed covers, photo cover art of horse-drawn fire engines, each w/ their Waltham Engine companies, punch sewn at gutter margins w/ blue & gold silk braid respectively, each w/ small souvenir pencil for writing on the dance card still attached (minor edgewear, light rubbing), still VG set, from the library of Lewis Corbin Button, Jr. (1887-1956), former toy maker and sign painters, whose father Lewis C. Button (1848-1906) was a carriage and wagon painter. First editions, thus, of these charming dance card programs for the Waltham Firemen's Relief Assoc., originally organized in Dec., 1886 to pay out benefits to sick and disabled firemen injured in the line of duty. Entertainment often included Vaudeville acts, silent movies, glass lantern slide shows, and even hose coupling contests.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 90 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 90 Volume 1995/1996 Language: English.…