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FIREFIGHTERS: Their Lives in Their Own Words.
by Smith, Dennis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (small sketch on front pastedown, some toning to the pages.)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385241216
- ISBN 13
- 9780385241212
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (small sketch on front pastedown, some toning to the pages.). First printing. Written by a former firefighter, and based on dozens of interviews across the country, this tells the stories of the men and women who fight urban building fires, who battle sweeping forest fires, who perform emergency rescues, and who face extreme danger as part of their daily lives. Illustrated with photographs. 320 p
Synopsis
Dennis Smith grew up in the tenements of New York's East side. After a stint in the U.S. Air Force, he was appointed to the New York Fire Department. An active firefighter for 18 years, he retired to become the publisher and editor in chief of Firehouse Magazine, a Honorary Deputy Chief of the New York City Fire Department and Chairman of the New York Academy of Art. He has written several books about firemen, four of which have been New York Times bestsellers, including Report from Engine Co. #82 , and Firefighting in America . He is also the author of the novels, The Final Fire , Glitter and Ash , and Steely Blue.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57873
- Title
- FIREFIGHTERS: Their Lives in Their Own Words.
- Author
- Smith, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (small sketch on front pastedown, some toning to the pages.)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385241216
- ISBN 13
- 9780385241212
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1988.)
- Keywords
- biography, forest fires, firemen,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: USA;
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