After the Tangshan earthquake: how the Chinese people overcame a major natural disaster
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. Paperback. 79 page paperback, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates; mild shelfwear. More
Cat.No: 247832
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. Paperback. 79 page paperback, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates; mild shelfwear. More
Cat.No: 247832
Paperback. Pp.177-263 (i.e., 86p.), presswork on semi-coated alkaline paperstock illustrated with b&w site photos, line maps and diagrams. Original issue in plain printed 10x6.5 inch journal wraps. Head of spine has a half-inch chip, margin of front cover a quarter-inch closed tear, otherwise mild general edgewear; clean, untoned and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 230437
San Francisco: Neal Publishing/George Lithograph Co., 1971. Pamphlet. pp. 701 - 797, 5.5x8.5 inches, stapled wraps, reprint of the original 1908 report offered by the Public Service Dept., Office of the Mayor of San Francisco. Spinefold has a small tear near one staple. An underlined copy, expect ink to pages..... More
Cat.No: 299693
Berkeley: the Fund, 2011. 15p., glossy stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, photo illustrations, very good condition. Published after the January earthquake, highlights efforts to rebuild and to improve civil society in Haiti. More
Cat.No: 162690
Cupertino: California History Center, 1973. 72p., 5.5x8.5 inches, map, preface, footnotes, sources, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Short historical essays by Mary Black, Walter de Veechi, Gloria J. Reagan and others. More
Cat.No: 99643
San Francisco: The Advergraph Press, 1906. Single leaf of alkaline coated paper folded to nine double-sided 4x6 inch panels reproducing b&w disaster scenes, eighteen views, the folded packet tipped into a drab cardstock folder titled in gilt. Nicely gotten up and in very good condition. Less fortunately, reproductions are fair-only..... More
Cat.No: 227188
San Francisco: Printed by Order of the Association, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915. Paperback. 174, 190, 143, iii, 233, 269p., mugshots and group portraits on inserted coated stock, softbounds in 9x6 inch plain printed wraps. Issue dates printed on spines except for 1910, hand-written. General mild edgewear and dimming, with..... More
Cat.No: 182686
Washington: US Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration at the USGPO, 1971. Paperback. vi, 254p., 9x11.5 inches, graphs, charts, figures, tables, photos, in lightly-worn pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 120045
Oakland: Association of Bay Area Governments, April 1995. iv, 56p., coated bright-white paperstock, profuse computer-generated maps, most in colors (these on near-cardstock weight paper). First issue 11x8.5 inch staplebound wraps, very good condition. Two staplebound pamphlets laid in, titled "An Ounce of Prevention: Strenghening Your Wood Frame House for Earthquake..... More
Cat.No: 263936
Oakland: Association of Bay Area Governments, April 1995. iv, 56p., coated bright-white paperstock, profuse computer-generated maps, most in colors (these on near-cardstock weight paper). First issue 11 x 8.5 inch staplebound wraps, cover has a long corner-crease otherwise faintest signs of handling. The diagrammatic maps are vivid. More
Cat.No: 76043
1847. Illustrative map with text, depicting the ravages of the earthquake that struck the Nagano region in 1847. Two woodblock prints are linked together, total dimensions 26.5x17.75 inches. Dated Kōka year 4, 28th day of the 5th month (new edition). Right side is mounted on a sheet of modern generic..... More
Cat.No: 298067
Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1907. 398p. plus numerous appended advertisements, printed on untrimmed extra-heavy clay-coated paperstock in sewn signatures and cased into red cloth boards decorated gilt and black. Class photos are tinted green, and the massive cardstock-weight frontispiece / titlepage is a nice one in colors, credited in the..... More
Cat.No: 231610
Darmstadt: Wissenschafteliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994. Hardcover. vi, 234p., text in German, introduction, bibliography, index, pictorial endpapers, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dh. Personal inscription to Hubert Kennedy signed by the editor. Contemporary reports by authors and philosophers on the 1775 Lisbon earthquake. More
Cat.No: 221709
Los Angeles: The News Co., 1989. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, ads, news stories, articles, editorials, services, features, obituaries, very good on newsprint. Cover story on the survival of The Castro after the Oct. 17, 1989 earthquake. Ten year anniversary of A Different Light Book Store (now long gone)..... More
Cat.No: 301676
Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing Company, 1913. Hardcover. 258, [4]p., illustrations, boards. 7.75 x 5.5 in. Bound in publisher’s cloth, white block stamping on front cover and spine. Very Good. Evangelical Christian novel. With an extended scene on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and its aftermath. Brown founded the..... More
Cat.No: 317859
Oakland: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 1995. 116p., lightly shelfworn softcover; numerous black and white photos highlighting destruction from the Kobe earthquake and drawing attention to mistakes in construction or planning that led to unnecessary damage. More
Cat.No: 171017
San Francisco: the society / Charles A. Fracchia, publisher and editor-in-chief, 2018. Magazine. 75p., numerous period images (site photos, plat maps & old family shots) reproduced clearly in b&w, most of these pix this cataloguer has never seen before, especially of``` fire & quake. Softbound, 11x8.5 inch decorated white wraps..... More
Cat.No: 239834
San Jose: California Earthquake Survival Co., 1980. 64p. 5.5x8.5 inches, introduction, bibliography, further reading, related subjects, illustrated with small figures and maps, cover slightly faded otherwise very good first edition booklet in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 149167
San Francisco: Directory of Members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco with the California Historical Society and the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1971. Portfolio. mustard yellow folio (8.75x11.5 inches), with twelve individual plates (8.5x11 inches) with photographs of San Francisco. Folio corners ever so slightly bent, else..... More
Cat.No: 279535
Charleston, SC: [the author], 2011. v, 221., softcover, as new. Memoir on the 1981 blockade of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and related nonviolent activism. More
Cat.No: 215821
Palo Alto: Palo Alto Historical Association, 1989. Four-panel newsletter, 7x8.5 inches, announcement of a talk and general meeting at Lucy Stern Community Center featuring pediatrician Joseph Davis, MD, remembrances of earthquakes et al, very good but for horizontal fold crease. The Loma Prieta earthquake had just occured at time of..... More
Cat.No: 214600
Newport News, VA: Self-published by the author at DG Publishers, 1996. Paperback. [vii] 164p., foreword, personal inscriptuion to a San Francisco library and its staff signed by the African American author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The San Francisco librarian spent 7 years trying to get..... More
Cat.No: 213657
Managua: Editorial y Litografia "San Jose" 1973. Pamphlet. 61, [3]pp., illustrations, oblong printed wraps. 8 x 5.25 in. Eighth edition. Small stain near top of title page, pages toned, else very good. Eighth edition of this photo-illustrated poem commemorating a devastating earthquake that struck Managua on December 23, 1972. Also..... More
Cat.No: 305230
Pasadena CA: Tetra Tech Inc., 1979. Paperback. vii, 328p., text reproduced from keyboard-set ms, illustrated with diagrams, tables, formulae; softbound in 10x10 inch decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear with a tiny corner-tip bump, completely clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 241188
San Jose: MCC, 1989. [4p] 7x8.5 inches, articles, calendar of events, fold crease otherwise a very good newsletter of folded, nested, unbound sheets in yellow pictorial wraps. The Pastor's editorial refers to the 1989 earthquake. More
Cat.No: 201862