Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
by Kurzman, Dan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061051748
- ISBN 13
- 9780061051746
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. xxiv, 296 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Just after 5 A.M. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale ripped through sleeping San Francisco, toppling buildings, exploding gas mains, and trapping thousands of citizens beneath tons of stone, broken wood, and twisted metal. Herds of cattle stampeded madly through the streets. The air reverberated with the panicked screams of the doomed and dying." "Drawing on meticulous research and eyewitness accounts, Dan Kurzman re-creates one of the most horrific events of the twentieth century. It is a breathtaking, magnificently composed pastiche of personal tragedies. Kurzman captures the fear and madness that raged through a hell unequaled in the peacetime history of this nation. Yet, amid the rubble and death, the author also uncovers extraordinary courage and humanity and honorable acts as noble as any every celebrated." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102013
- Title
- Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
- Author
- Kurzman, Dan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0061051748
- ISBN 13
- 9780061051746
- Publisher
- William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- X: Californiana; Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning;
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