After the Tangshan earthquake: how the Chinese people overcame a major natural disaster
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. 79 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates; very good paperback. More
Cat.No: 247832
Earthquakes
An alternative seismic retrofit proposal, Sacred Heart Church presented to Oakland City Council, September 10, 1991
Oakland: The Church, 1991. Paperback. unpaginated, collection of facsimiles of letters and reports from architects, independent contractors etc., plans, budgets, arguments etc., very good in spiral-bound pictorial wraps. An evaluation of the '89 earthquake damage, proposed repairs and strengthenings. More
Cat.No: 167800
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
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Berkeley: the Fund, 2011. 15p., glossy wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, photo illustrations. 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
A Pictorial Booklet, San Francisco in Ruins. The Spirit of '06 [doggerel in smallpoint beneath title:] We crossed the plains in '49 to find the land of Gold. / With our pack Mules we foraged far, and in Frisco took a hold / [illegible, ..vow to rebuild..]
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 unmolested condition. Less fortunately, reproductions are..... More
Cat.No: 227188
![Proceedings of the Thirty-Third [-Fourth, -Fifth, -Seventh, -Ninth] Annual Meeting of the Fire...](/pictures/thumb/182686.jpg?v=1516518545)
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
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
![The Stanford Quad 1908 Vol. XIV [spine titling]; 1908 Quad Being The Year Book of the Junior...](/pictures/thumb/231610.jpg?v=1542853376)
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
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700. Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
Reston VA / Seattle: US Geological Survey / University of Washington Press, 2005. Paperback. vii, 133p., clay-coated alkaline paperstock with profuse vignette and fullpage illustrations in color and b&w, including color reproductions of renaissance-era maps. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, slight external edgewear, entirely clean, sound and unmarked, a...... More
Cat.No: 241015
"San Francisco Is No More" The Letters of Antoine Borel, Jr., 1905-1906. Edited by Ronald G. Fick
Menlo Park: Printed and bound at Wilmac Press, San Mateo, by J. Wilson McKenney for the editor, 1963. Hardcover. Unpaginated material, 32p., frontis portrait; sewn hardbound in 9.2x6 inch clothbacked boards with printed paper label; upper cover decorated with a facsimile of a letter-page. Design and execution a little klunky..... More
Cat.No: 210051
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
All Bets Off a novel
Midway, FL: Spinsters Ink, 2006. Paperback. 194p., very good first edition stated trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Lesbian love story set in San Francisco during and after the 1906 Earthquake. More
Cat.No: 269398
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
24 Southern California Earthquake Pictures: including map of stricken area and seismograph records
np: Allen B. Cooke, 1933. [12]p., stapled wraps, 9 x 5.75 inches landscape format, chiefly illus., lightly worn else very good condition. Photos of Compton, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Huntington Park, and Lynwood following the earthquake. More
Cat.No: 253276
Preparing for the Big One
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
Heimat-Grüsse: gedichte
Dresden: E. Pierson, 1908. vii, 197p., lovely illustrated boards decorated with gilt, brilliant gilt edges to textblock, all very good in original moderately worn slipcase. Inscribed and signed across the titlepage by author Duisenberg. Main text entirely in the German language; captions to plates in english. Collection of German-language poetry..... More
Cat.No: 152605
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
![The Tall Tree: Palo Alto Historical Association [newsletter] vol. 13, #2, October 1989. Betty Gerard](/pictures/thumb/214600.jpg?v=1493260444)
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 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
Damming the flood; Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment
London & NY: Verso, 2010. Paperback. xxxvii, 474p., trade paperback, with new 2010 afterword by the author. More
Cat.No: 247417
The Agnos years 1988 - 1991
San Francisco: The Independent, 1991. 88p., 5.5x8 inches, good booklet in stapled black glossy wraps. Chapters retail such matters as "How Agnos got rich," turf wars with police and fire departments, condescending remarks to the gay community. More
Cat.No: 108801
Tsunamis; Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Workshop; May 1979
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