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Foot Prints on the Road
by Nisbet, Harry T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1900s. Printed by Martin B. Brown, Company, NY. Rebound in brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Frontispiece photo and facsimile signature of the author. Scarce memoir by the longtime traveling shoe salesman, whose career was ended after an accident in Albany, New York, which left him “an incurably crippled and partially blind pauper inmate of the male blind ward at the almshouse on Blackwell’s Island, NY, in distressed want and suffering”. He states that he wrote this book to raise funds for himself and his wife. In it, he relates many aspects of the shoe industry of the late 19th century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39430
- Title
- Foot Prints on the Road
- Author
- Nisbet, Harry T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; A few smudges in text.
- Publisher
- Self Published
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Shoe Salesmen, Traveling Salesmen, Shoe Industry, Blackwell's Island, New York, 19th Century Retail History
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Business of Business; Biography and Memoir;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- New
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- Rebound
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- Gilt
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- Facsimile
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