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Foot Prints on the Road
de Nisbet, Harry T
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1900s. Printed by Martin B. Brown, Company, NY. Rebound in brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Frontispiece photo and facsimile signature of the author. Scarce memoir by the longtime traveling shoe salesman, whose career was ended after an accident in Albany, New York, which left him “an incurably crippled and partially blind pauper inmate of the male blind ward at the almshouse on Blackwell’s Island, NY, in distressed want and suffering”. He states that he wrote this book to raise funds for himself and his wife. In it, he relates many aspects of the shoe industry of the late 19th century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 39430
- Título
- Foot Prints on the Road
- Autor
- Nisbet, Harry T
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.
- Editorial
- Self Published
- Fecha de publicación
- N.D.
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Shoe Salesmen, Traveling Salesmen, Shoe Industry, Blackwell's Island, New York, 19th Century Retail History
- Catálogos del vendedor
- The Business of Business; Biography and Memoir;
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Sobre el vendedor
Old Saratoga Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Selkirk, New York
Sobre Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
