Stainbrook Reuben E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at the bottom of the title page as follows: "Reuben E Stainbrook." 12 mo. (19 cm.) 271p. Green pebble grain cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. Almost no wear to extremities, spine gilt slightly dulled, cover gilt bright, else near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. This is a historical fictionalized account of the great Titusville, Pennsylvania oil fire of 1892. "A dam seven miles above Titusville gave way in the night. Oil tanks were swept away, the stream leaped its banks, and bearing on its back a widespread layer of oil, dashed into Titusville a roaring, tumbling mass of flame. There was a terrible stampede. Scores of persons were swept away in an effort to find safety. One-third of the town was burned, and at 10 o'clock that night forty bodies had been recovered. The scenes of the night in Titusville were repeated on perhaps even a larger scale at Oil City, eighteen miles below. The damage to property in Titusville and Oil City, and the towns along the creek between those cities, amounted to millions of dollars." [info from source on Pennsylvania disasters]. Signed by Author(s). …

1st Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A fictional tale with a historical background. Scarce. Very good, tape ghosts to pastedowns, clear tape over author's signature, in a thoroughly tattered and tape-repaired dust jacket missing the front flap. 19.3x15.7 cm. 271 pp. Green textured cloth, gold titles.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tribune Publishing Company January 1940 Binding: Hardcover SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH DUST JACKET $NRP.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 276. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1940 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume --- Language: English Pages: 276 Volume ---.…