Author: Golden picture book series
Title: MY PICTURE BOOK OF FIREMEN with two colour plates and nearly seventy illustrations
Description: London & Melbourne, Ward,Lock & Co, Ltd. 1922 approx according to OCLC color plates {2] + almost 70 illustrations. . lg.8vo cloth spined pictorial boards showing firemen up ladders aiming hioses at the buildign on fire with engine below. {edges and corners worn/some scratching/lower cover with 1cm paper loss to patterned cream board] endpapers unsigned but in the style of Maybank cartoons. Unpaginated but [68pp] excluding only the endpapers. Told as a father and son pass a firestation and the father and helpful firemen answer the boys' questions. Includes an explanation of engines old and new, fighting New York Sky-scraeper fires, river fire-boats, chemical extinguishers and masks, jumping into sheets,Eton & other schools practicing firedrill & firemen in other countries.

Keywords: Fire fighting


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