Rex Monigatti Ed (4 results)

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards, 156pp + 22pp ads at rear, illus, VG (d/w stuck to boards, slight rubbing to board edges) in d/w, VG (stuck to boards of book, moderate fading to spine, light soiling, some creasing to edges, two 1cm closed tears).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This copy is signed by many of the brigade from 1965 as well as the Fire chief W J Henderson. Nice clean copy. No jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. From Bells to Blazes: The Story of the Wellington Fire Brigade 1865 - 1965 by Rex Monigatti (Ed). Publisher: A.B.D. Clark, Ltd., New Zealand, 1965, First Edition. Very good hardback with fair jacket. Red cloth boards have some faded marks to front cover, no inscriptions, glue reside marks to edges of endpapers. Pages are very good. Jacket is rubbed, faded, chipped, marked with some reapired tears, small loss to top right corner. 156 pages, illustrated, plus adverts.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. 1st. 22cm By 14.5cm. Published to mark the centenary of the Wellington Fire Briade in 1965 this history also covers the years prior to the official formation of the brigade and as a result is also the story of organised fire fighting in the country's earliest years of settlement. It also records the remarkable developments in fire fighting technology. Most of all, it is a tribute to the capital's fire fighters and the major blazes they fought. Very scarce. 156 pages including five appendices, 52 b/w photos. (22 unpaginated pages related advertisements at back.) Red hard covers with gilt front/spine titles VG+ with light bumping to corners/spine extremities. Text block excellent, no inscriptions. Red pictorial DJ with white titles VG with small section missing spine extremities, lower corner front fold, few chips, creases, tape repaired short tears. Photos (illustrator).…