Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. 79 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates; very good paperback. 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

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: 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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