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188573568Antwerp Ohio: McCabe & Shaffer Agts. Very Good. 1885. Softcover. Chromolithograph color illustrated advertisement/calendar. German Fire Insurance Co. 1885; measures 10 1/2" x 6 1/2". Nice condition. The attached calender measures 3 1/2" x 3" and all 12 pages are present. At the top of the calendar Pittsburgh PA is printed. Light foxing but overall bright and colorful and pictorial woman portrait and eagle . McCabe & Shaffer, Agts. paperback books
19631286286New York: George Braziller 1963. First Edition. Octavo; VG/VG; black spine blue/red text; jacket has light rubbing on front and back light bumping on the head mild age toning and tail of spine unclipped and has protective mylar cover; boards has bumping on the head and tail of spine light staining on the tail of front and back; textblock has spotting on the bottom edge otherwise clean; interior pages clean; LP consignment; pp 330. 1286286. Full-priced Rockville. George Braziller unknown books
31948Evansville IN: M.T. Publishing Company 2006. Hardcover. 9.5" x 12.25". Pictorial boards in matching pictorial dust jacket. Overall clean and sound. Like New. ISBN: 1932439579. . LikeNew. Hardcover . M.T. Publishing Company 2006 hardcover books
18952222068<p>First edition. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Fine fresh copy on buff paper. 4 pages.</p><p>An early Riverside County imprint.</p> Board of Fire Underwriters unknown books
1867598201867. FIRE LANDS PIONEER. THE FIRE LANDS PIONEER. Volume VIII June 1867 Vol. IX June 1868 Vol. X June 1870. Published by the Fire Lands Historical Society. Sandusky OH: Register Steam Printing Establishment 1867 1868 1870. Three issues in 8vo. marbled-paper-covered leather-backed boards original wrappers bound in. Bookplate. Front board two chipped prelim. blanks detached but present rear board starting crumbling leather. As is with clean text. unknown books
200222888ELos Angeles: Touchstone Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment 2002. Original advance screening invitation for the film Reign of Fire dated July 9 2002 to be screened at the Village Theater in Westwood CA. The invitation is a single sheet folded to measure 5†x 7â€. Illustrated on the front panel with an image from the film. In fine condition. The film was directed by Rob Bowman and stars Matthew McConaughey Christian Bale Izabella Scorupco Gerard Butler and Alexander Siddig. Touchstone Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment unknown books
19741324436New York: Praeget Publishers 1974. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine pink with black print; DJ has light edgewear remains of label on front else clean and bright; Boards in pink cloth bump to spine tail else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 210 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1324436. FP New Rockville Stock. Praeget Publishers hardcover books
1983217585Atlanta GA: Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Red decorated cloth binding with dark raised lettering. Boards slightly cocked. Very Good binding. Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services unknown books
185611059London: Chief Offices Unity Buildings 1856. 8vo. 36 pp. <br><br>Column-by-column rebuttal of a "Daily News" article.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat finds no copies in the U.S. and precious few in Britain or Europe. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in NSTC CD version; not in Goldsmiths'; not in Kress. Removed from a nonce volume leaves separated. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper corner also with light soiling and one small stamp. Chief Offices, Unity Buildings unknown books
194384999Denver: The Company 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. index 972p. Speckled blue and white cover. 28 cm. Foxing on page edges. No Jacket. Printed slip laid in saying that because of the World War some items were either not available or subject to allocation. <br/><br/> The Company hardcover books
40711AUTOMOBILE FIRE INSURANCE NATIONAL SECURITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Two-p Monthly Fiscal Bulletin for Omaha Nebraska Insurance Company with Flyer for Automobile Insurance Company aimed at covering fire insurance for Automobiles. Omaha: March 1917. Quarto Two-sheet typed Bulletin on company letterhead wit two-sided printed and illustrated flyer promoting automobile fire insurance. Rare automobile ephemera on automobile insurance the Monthly Bulletin No. 16 March 1917 with typed report to "Stockholders of the National Fire Insuranc Company" on the status of their finances. The company letterhead with automobile and horse driven fire equipment exiting fire house. Included is a printed flyer promoting the need to buy fire insurance for your car "Do they burn" "They do Burn!" with two half-tone photographs of a wrecked automobil and another one of an automobile destroyed by fire. Printed for the Automobi Insurance Company of Lincoln Nebraska. Very good. unknown books
185930233New York: Slote & Janes Stationers 1859. 20pp stitched in original printed wrappers. Several contemporary corrections in ink. Very Good with a tipped-in certification from the Insurance Department that the original is on file with that Department. <br/><br/> This is probably the Standard Fire Insurance Company's retained copy of its original charter. In addition to the tipped-in certificate the front wrapper is stamped "Received from the Secretary of State and filed in the Department of Banking and Insurance" and signed by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of May 2013. Slote & Janes, Stationers unknown books
193752948Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co 1937. 8vo pp. 96; printed in blue and black throughout; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; generally a fine bright copy. <br/><br/> Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co unknown books
1854100210Folio 11 3/4 x17 4 pp. plus two attached receipts for 1854 &1856 engraving on top of first page signed. Some slight aging creasing at folds but in very good or better condition. This is a fire insurance policy of John Wallis for a two story building on the North side of Broadway just off Mullberry Street in Paterson New Jersey.The premium was $15 for $1200 in coverage.It appears that the proceeds from the policy were to be paid to a Cornelius Duryea. An intesting account of an early insurance policy with premiums that just about anyone could handle. books
18005672Boston 1800. 18 1pp. No half title. Disbound light tanning and wear. <br/><br/> With a list of members. George Minot was President of the Society which was incorporated in 1794. <br/>IRST EDITION. Evans 37929. unknown books
19369736New York Camp Fire Girls Inc. 1936. 1936. First edition first printing so stated "November". Small 8vo. Illustrated with photographs maps drawings etc. Original limp pictorial tan cloth stamped with geometric Art Deco design in orange and dark brown. Very good. 248 pages with index. No signatures or bookplates. The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in 1912. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. New York Camp Fire Girls, Inc. [1936]. hardcover books
184936814Philadelphia 1849. Folio large sheet folded to 14" x 22". 4 pp. Partly printed document completed in neat elegant manuscript. Printed on blue paper using decorative and standard typesettings. First page engraved with a beautiful illustration of the Fairmount Waterworks as seen from the west bank of the Schuylkill River; depicting the engine house millhouse mound dam and men fishing from shore. Attributed to "T. Birch del./ R.Tiller Sc.". Beneath the illustration is the policy of insurance blindstamp seal to the left of the signatures. The second page contains columns for recording future transfers of the policy; the third page contains the terms and conditions of permanent policy; and the final page has a printed area for recording the policy number date issued etc. with an illustration of the company's fire mark consisting of a fire-plug hydrant with a section of hose attached to it. A rubberstamped receipt of return deposit which has been signed by George W. Quein as executor of Geo. Quein deceased. Old folds several splits partly repaired. Else Very Good. <br/><br/> The Fire Association of Philadelphia was founded in September 1817 by a group of eleven volunteer engine companies and five volunteer hose companies. The Association distributed a percentage of its profits to local volunteer companies. Insurance policy holders were required to affix fire marks outside of their building to inform fire brigades that the building was insured and by which company. The F.A. fire mark was extremely popular and an estimated 40000 fire marks were issued during the company's history. The Fire Association operated until 1958 when it merged with the Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia. <br/> George Quein 1818-1882 owned a grocery business on the corner of 13th and Vine for many years. George W. Tryon 1791-1878 president of the Fire Association of Philadelphia from 1837-1872 had been a maker and seller of firearms was a trustee of the Philadelphia City Savings Institution and vice president of the Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled firemen. William J. Butler 1820-1879 became Secretary to the Company in 1846. unknown books
185774407Chicago Illinois: Daily Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing House. Very Good. 1857. Pamphlet. This pamphlet is soft-bound in tan printed wrappers. The cover wrappers show some light foxing/soiling. as well as some very light edge-wear. The string binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible. Chicago Pre-Fire Imprint. . Daily Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing House. unknown books
186085165New York: Holman & Gray 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume containing 14 consecutive reports for 1st of June to the 1st of December 1854 through 1st December 1859 to 31st May 1860. Each report individually paginated -- generally 30-40 pages each. 19th century 1/2 leather. 22 cm. Corners and edges rubbed. Joints quite tender. "Rutgers Ins. Co." in gilt on front cover. Bookplate removed. A few ink markings. <br/><br/> Holman & Gray hardcover books
191145962New York: Hebrew Publishing Co 1911. First Edition. Music sheet 34cm x 26cm; 4pp. Original lithographed cover signed Jacob Keller with halftone portrait insets. Slight toning to extremities still Near Fine. Uncommon sheet memorializing the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Lyrics are printed in Hebrew and transliterated Yiddish; only the title is supplied in English and the title is spelled differently on cover and first page. <br/><br/>The cover illustration is a full-length portrait of composer Joseph Rumshisky with inset halftone portraits of the lyricist Anshel Schorr and performer Hyman J. Ginsburg. Heskes notes that the composition "appears to be a song whose lyrics were quickly augmented to reflect a tragic event." OCLC gives one location Harvard; Marwick Roster No. 13359; HESKES 390. Hebrew Publishing Co unknown books
190633036San Francisco: Issued by General Passenger Department Southern Pacific Company 1906. Rocq 12242. Some modest age toning to paper. Occasional split along a fold junction. A Very Good copy of a somewhat uncommon item with OCLC recording 7 holding institutions. One sheet printed both sides folded 3x. 8 pp of text. Illustrated with 3 panoramic b/w images 6-7/8" x 20" from photographs plus one city plan 2 pages in size. The 3 photographic images show 1 San Francisco the morning of April 18th 2 the intact residential section of the city as taken from an air ship over Twin Peaks & 3 the active & untouched San Francisco waterfront as of June taken by another air ship. Sheet size: 27-3/4" x 21". Folded: 10-1/2" x 7". Rocq mentions a 'pocket' none is present here. <br/><br/>A 'folder' issued by the Southern Pacific a few months after the conflagration to update interested parties stockholders that San Francisco was NOT destroyed is still active & viable and that the city's situation should now be viewed as an "Opportunity" with "the mighty forces that here created a great city . are now creating a greater one ." Issued by General Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company unknown books
18711001188vo pamphlet publisher’s wrappers illustrated 144 pp. Wrappers chipped at the edges and a bit toned and stained Also signature on top of front wrapper. Bookplate indicating From Henry Belknap Fire Library on front pastedown. Usual aging and toning but overall very good. Gives a lot of detail about the Chicago fires as well as some other significant fires. Includes a folding colored map of Chicago illustrating the burnt portion of the city. There are four other folding plates which include illustrations of the burning of the chamber of commerce and opera house. A note from the publisher indicates a portion of the proceeds from the pamphlet will go toward helping the victims. unknown books
182815371Paris: Castil-Blaze PN 23 1828. 1f. title 3ff. preface including a list of operas by Grétry 2-258 i index pp. listing the 46 numbers from the 21 operas found in the work. <br/><br/>The present score is especially interesting as it contains an air from Grétry's opera Cécile et Ermancé ou Les deux couvents comédie mêlée d'ariettes not included in the published edition of the opera. The work in 3 acts to a libretto by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Desprès was first performed on January 16 1792 in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne. <br/><br/>Wotquenne: Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles 3624.<br/><br/>Bound with:<br/>Carbonel Narcisse. La Dansomanie Ballet de P. Gardel Arrangé pour le Forte-Piano avec accompagnement de Violon. 1re Livraison. Paris: Frères Gaveaux ca. 1828. 1f. title 1 blank 2-36 pp. Mercier overpaste to imprint. Engraved. The first act only.<br/><br/>Folio. Contemporary green vellum-backed marbled boards with manuscript title label to upper. <br/><br/>Binding worn; hinges split. Castil-Blaze [PN 23] unknown books
186856003New York: Insurance Monitor Office 1868. First edition. Small 4to. 105 3 pp. Introduction: "It is a collection of scattered fragments of insurance wisdom collated from a great variety of sources freely appropriated and brought into an aggregated form whence the tyro in the profession can gather the fruits divested of technicalities." With a southern ownership signature "Jno. R. Long Agt. / Columbus Miss." OCLC locates six copies Buffalo/Erie County Public New York Public Library of Congress Smithsonian North Carolina Brown. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth spine ends and corners rubbed. Very good. 2525. <br/><br/> Insurance Monitor Office hardcover books
1872517Chicago: Max Stern 1872. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm. 7 ¾ x 5 inches. v 146 24 pp. plus 8 pp. ads. Illustrated with a folding stencil colored map and three folding lithographic plates. Bound in publisher's green cloth binding title in gilt on spine; edges of cloth a bit worn head of spine frayed some loss of color to cloth; illustrations separated at folds expertly repaired. This copy with the signature of Otto Lob on front free-endpaper and title-page. With faults a good copy. First edition self-published by the authors and printed by Max Stern. Contemporary account of the devastating fire that swept Chicago in October 1871. Published for the German language community in the United States it appears that numerous copies were also sent to Germany by the publisher Max Stern. An English language edition was published by Seeger in 1893 as part of the Columbian Exposition that took place in Chicago that year. The map entitled "Chicago as it is Showing the Burnt District" illustrates the impact of the fire in Wards 1 2 14 15 and 16 ranging from Taylor Street near the railroad depot running north to Lincoln Park. The map is colored by stencil in shades of red and green and evokes the destruction the fire caused to this populous part of the City. The book also contains three lithographic plates by Schrader Lith. Steam Press of St. Louis. One is a view of the City from Lake Michigan entitled "Chicago in Flammen". This is followed by a stunning lithographic entitled "Die Ruinen von Chicago" and a third dramatic image showing the burning of the Crosby Opera House and people fleeing the flames. "Saddened by the sight they came to the realization that they had been the protagonists of the last drama ever to be played out at Crosby's Opera House." Not in Howes or Graff. OCLC citing numerous copies in the United States and Germany. Peters American on Stone p. 360 for information on Schrader Lith. Steam Press. Eugene H. Cropsey Crosby's Opera House: Symbol of Chicago's Cultural Awakening Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2000. Max Stern unknown books
