Report from Engine Co. 82
by Smith, Dennis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- NF contents (a few small spots to covers). Front blue moire end papers missing (?). Corresponding ones in back are present.
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bonanza Books, 1983. Limited, deluxe, signed edition. Hardcover. NF contents (a few small spots to covers). Front blue moire end papers missing (?). Corresponding ones in back are present.. Red leather, gilt lettering and decoration. 8 raised bands. AEG. Placeholder ribbon.xix, [3], 215 pp. with no illus. No. 181, signed by the author on the colophon. Also inscribed to friends on the white ffep. This work narrates the dramas and cameraderie of firefighters working in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s. Engine Company 82 was the busiest fire company in the most desperate neighbourhoods of America's largest city and Dennis Smith tells of the horrors and heroism of a firefighter's life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 159768
- Title
- Report from Engine Co. 82
- Author
- Smith, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF contents (a few small spots to covers). Front blue moire end papers missing (?). Corresponding ones in back are present.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited, deluxe, signed edition
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Biography / Autobiography; Dennis Smith; Fire Fighting; New York Fire Department ; Smith, Dennis ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
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