Fallows Rt Rev Samuel Introduction (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Also includes work on the eruption of Vesuvius by Richard Linthicum. 408 pages. Navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration, illustration plate to front panel. Cloth rubbed and edgeworn, sunned to spine, with bumped spine tips and fore-edge corners, gilt legible though dulled, minor chipping to edges of illustration plate. Spine square. Binding sound. Light scuffing to FFEP, faint soft-scarring from sticker removal at FFEP, blue inkblot stains at front paste down and FFEP. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. Designed to be the most comprehensive work ever produced on this event, the publishers hired the best historical writers & photographers to document the devastating effects of the April 18th, 1906, earthquake that virtually leveled the city of San Francisco, "having no parallel outside of Dante's Inferno." Countless first-person accounts by the survivors & rescuers are provided, edited & with an Introduction by Bishop Samuel Fallows. Also included is a section on the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius by R. Linthicum & another 12 chapters (by historian Trumbull White) describing 'in graphic detail" other notable disasters throughout history. In 408 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with duotone photos taken immediately after the disaster & in the weeks & months following as the city from with photographic scenes of the earthquake's immediate aftermath. The Memorial Edition from 1906, this hardcover octavo (7" x 9.25") has gray cloth-covered boards stamped in heavily faded gilt to front & spine, paper pastedown inside a gilt oval to front cover. Condition is only Fair: though contents are complete. Pages significantly tanned, but unmarked save for random small smudges, light soil. Both hinges cracked with some evidence of regluing to spine. Exterior shows significant fading & rubbing. No DJ as issued by publisher. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.