Backward Glances: Reminiscences of an Old New-Yorker
by Floyd-Jones, Thos
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York - Brooklyn - Long Island: [Author], 1914. Memoir of New York & Brooklyn in the 1860s, mostly concerned with trotting horses, but also the theater scene & actors of the day, and the "old volunteer fire system of New York and Brooklyn". INSCRIBED by the author to handwriting expert Wm. J. Kinsley on the free endsheet, with a handwritten letter to Kinsley pasted to the back of the frontispiece. Hardcover, showing some wear & small stains, light waterstains to fore-edge. Text clean; [4], xxxi, blank, 275 pages; extensive index (almost a third of the book), b/w photos, facsimiles of documents.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u0157
- Title
- Backward Glances: Reminiscences of an Old New-Yorker
- Author
- Floyd-Jones, Thos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- [Author]
- Place of Publication
- New York - Brooklyn - Long Island
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Horse Racing, Trotting
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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- Octavo
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