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
Earthquakes
Between Life and Death: Surviving Aceh's Tsunami
[Sydney, Australia]: Eye on Aceh, 2005. 43p., stapled in illustrated wraps, small mark on front cover otherwise in very good condition. Text in English and Indonesian. More
Cat.No: 348556
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1915
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
Excerpts from San Francisco Municipal Reports for the fiscal year 1905 - 6, ending June 30, 1906 and fiscal year 1906 - 7, ending June 30, 1907 published by order of the Board of Supervisors: San Francisco Earthquake and fire 1906 [cover title]
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
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
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
Marina memories: local history studies vol. 16
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
![Cat.No: 182686 Proceedings of the Thirty-Third [-Fourth, -Fifth, -Seventh, -Ninth] Annual...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/182686.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1516516432)
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third [-Fourth, -Fifth, -Seventh, -Ninth] Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters' Association of the Pacific San Francisco, Cal., January 5-6, 1909 [series through 1915, five separate volumes as a small lot]
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
Psychic life; vol. 1, no. 4 (1980)
Berkeley: Berkeley Psychic Institute, 1980. 26p., 8.5x11 inch magazine wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 328513
The San Fernando, California, earthquake of February 9, 1971: a preliminary report; geological survey professional paper 733
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
The San Francisco Bay Area -- on shaky ground
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
The San Francisco bay area-- on shaky ground
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
Shin'etsu dai jishin basho 信越大地震場所
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
![Cat.No: 231610 The Stanford Quad 1908 Vol. XIV [spine titling]; 1908 Quad Being The...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/231610.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542841539)
The Stanford Quad 1908 Vol. XIV [spine titling]; 1908 Quad Being The Year Book of the Junior Class. May 1907 [titlepage]
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
Die Erschütterung der Vollkommen Welt: die wirkung des erdbebens von Lissabon im Spiegel europäischerzeitgenossen
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
The News: vol. 4, #16, Oct. 27, 1989: Castro Stands in Quake Wake
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
Community Service Directory: Buckle Up for Life Inside: Earthquake Preparedness Guide & Other Services
San Francisco: Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., [1980s]. 119p., 8.5x11 inches, sections on AIDS, Earthquake Preparedness, Arts, services, hospitals, etc., very good guide bound n paper covers by copy-shop plastic binder. More
Cat.No: 343174
The Call of Service
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
The Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake, Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster. January 17, 1995. Preliminary Reconnaissance Report
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
Portfolio of Old California
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
Protest Diablo: living and dying under the shadow of a nuclear power plant
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
![Cat.No: 214600 The Tall Tree: Palo Alto Historical Association [newsletter] vol. 13, #2,...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/214600.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1493086539)
The Tall Tree: Palo Alto Historical Association [newsletter] vol. 13, #2, October 1989
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
The Beginning of Sorrows: a novel based on the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989
Newport News, VA: Self-published by the author at DG Publishers, 1996. Paperback. [vii] 164p., foreword, personal inscription to a San Francisco library and its staff signed by the African American author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 213657
Denial of disaster: the untold story and photographs of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 [cover title]
San Francisco: Cameron and Co., 1989. Hardcover. 160p., 11.5x14 inches, illustrated endpapers, introduction, b&w and color photos, index, bibliography, earthquake update, very good first edition in cloth and dj. The update at the end of this large, dynamic book refers to the Loma Prieta which hit as the book was..... More
Cat.No: 86912
Earthquake safe: a hazard reduction manual for homes
Berkeley: A Builders Booksource Publication, 1989. 55p., 5.5x8.5 inches, foreword, illustrations, very good in original stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 106874
The Beacon: November 1989
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