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By: N/A
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1972
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2005575
First printing. 1972 Large Softcover. Unpaginated. Oblong. Stapled binding. An account of Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972, with color and black & white photographs throughout. View more info
By: Archbold, Rick
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Warner / Madison Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2287171
First edition. 1994 Large Hardcover. 229, [1] pp. Full-color illustrations complement a history of the era of dirigible flight, revealing what travel was like aboard the luxury German airship, the Hindenburg, and detailing its spectacular and tragic 1937 demise. View more info
By: Ballard, Robert D.; Archbold, Rick; Lord, Walter
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Warner / Madison Press: 1987
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2265854
Fourth printing. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note on half-title page. 1987 Large Hardcover. 230 pp. On September 1, 1985 Ballard and a joint French/American expedition found the legendary ship. This is a firsthand account of Ballard's twelve year quest to find the Titanic. View more info
By: Eastlake, Keith
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Motorbooks International: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265864
First edition. A very nice copy. 1997 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. Despite the engineering ingenuity that has gone into making trains safe, rail disasters have occurred since the early days of steam locomotion. Great Train Disasters is a fascinating account of horror and heroism on the world's railroads. First-rate illustrations of the aftermath of these catastrophic accidents, a text written by a railroad enthusiast, and details and photographs of more than 50 rail disasters... View more info
By: Fallows, Rt. Rev. Samuel; Linthicum, Richard; White, Trumbull
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Hubert D. Russell: 1906
Edition: Memorial Edition
Seller ID: 2286816
Memorial edition. No jacket. Spine very faintly toned, minor general wear. 1906 Hard Cover. 408 pp. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Introduction by Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows. A comprehensive and connected account of the terrible tragedy that befell the people of our Golden City--The Metropolis of the Golden Gate, and the death and ruin dealt many adjacent cities and surrounding country. Destroying earthquake comes without warning, in the early hours of the morn... View more info
![Image for Report to Hon. Harold W. Baker, City Manager of a Study of Flood Conditions in the Genesee River, Having Specific Relation to a Civic Center, also to the General Subject of Flood Protection for the City of Rochester, together with a Digest of Former Reports -- Also a Reference to the Large Floods of 1935, 1936 and 1937 in the Eastern Part of the United States, 1925-1937 [with] 1865 Rochester Flood Carte-de-Visite](/assets/images/product/2205234.jpg "Report to Hon. Harold W. Baker, City Manager of a Study of Flood Conditions in the Genesee River, Having Specific Relation to a Civic Center, also to the General Subject of Flood Protection for the City of Rochester, together with a Digest of Former Reports -- Also a Reference to the Large Floods of 1935, 1936 and 1937 in the Eastern Part of the United States, 1925-1937 [with] 1865 Rochester Flood Carte-de-Visite")
By: Fisher, Edwin A.; Covas, Perfecto A.; Freeman, John R.
Price: $200.00 $160.00
Publisher: Henderson-Mosher, Inc.: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205234
First edition. Presentation copy - bookplate signed by author affixed to front endpaper. 1865 CDV photograph taken in Rochester during the Genesee River flood laid in. Spine lightly soiled, edges of a few pages faintly foxed. 1937 Hard Cover. xix, 251 pp. 8vo. Numerous fold-out figures, tables, and plates (120 total) throughout text. A report presented to the Rochester, New York's city management regarding the history of flooding in the Genesee River area, with recommend... View more info
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Co.: 1889
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204811
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, front free endpaper removed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1889 Hard Cover. 459 pp. 8vo. 7 5/8 x 5 1/2. Numerous photographs. Including: all the fearful record; the breaking of the South Fork Dam; the sweeping out of the Conemaugh Valley; the overthrow of Johnstown; the massing of the wreck at the railroad bridge; escapes, rescues, searches for survivors and the dead; relief organizations; stupendous charities, etc, etc. The... View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Co.: 1889
Seller ID: 2284285
Boards a bit rubbed with loss of all gilt from spine titles and some from front board, rear hinge loosening, ink owner information on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1889 Hard Cover. xiv, 15-459, [3] pp. 8vo. 7 5/8 x 5 1/2. Numerous photographs. Including: all the fearful record; the breaking of the South Fork Dam; the sweeping out of the Conemaugh Valley; the overthrow of Johnstown; the massing of the wreck at the railroad bridge; escapes, rescues, searches for survivors an... View more info
By: Kohl, Cris
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Cris Kohl / Chamberlain-Mercury Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2135025
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Lightly rubbed, sticker on front jacket flap.Very Good. 1994 Hard Cover. vii, 312 pp. 8vo. From the jacket: 'Ontario's maritime history includes hundreds of shipwreck stories, some relatively commonplace, many tensely dramatic... these true shipwreck stories, over 130 in all, with settings ranging from the St. Lawrence River to the wilds of Lake Superior, and from the year 1679 to 1975, [detail] events wh... View more info
By: Lynch, Don; Ballard, Robert D. (Introduction)
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 1998
Seller ID: 2285482
Still in original plastic wrap. 1998 Large Hardcover. 228 pp. Beautiful color paintings throughout. A popular gift volume featuring dozens of meticulously accurate, full-color paintings -- including a fold-out illustration of the whole Titanic -- offers a wealth of information about the 'unsinkable' cruise ship and its fatal voyage. View more info
Price: $3.50 $2.80
Publisher: Lomond Publications, Inc.: 1986
Seller ID: 1521476
No jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1986 Hard Cover. 377 pp. CONTENTS: Publisher's Note; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Earthquakes and Subsidence; Part II: Mountain Hazards; Part III: Water Hazards; Part IV: Hazards of Climate; Part V: Preparedness and Rescue; Appendix. View more info
![Image for The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]](/assets/images/product/2264598.jpg "The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]")
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1968
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2264598
3rd printing. Very good book in fair jacket. Large chip from front jacket corner. Jacket now protected under fresh mylar. Owner sticker on front endpaper. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as... View more info
![Image for The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]](/assets/images/product/2283498.jpg "The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]")
Price: $225.00 $180.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283498
First edition. Remainder mark on page base, jacket flap price crossed out (but still visible), jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. The first book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings o... View more info
By: Morris, Charles
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: E.M. Scull: 1909
Seller ID: 1863146
Hinges starting. 1909 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 448 pp. Green decorative boards, with full color painting mounted on front board. Book I contains a complete and accurate account of the great Italian and Sicilian earthquake and tidal wave of 1908...Book II includes a graphic story of all great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the world's history, together with scientific explanations of their causes. Includes nearly 100 illustrations m... View more info
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: Kiwanis Club of Rochester: 1935
Seller ID: 2132935
1 inch tear to spine base. 1935 Stapled Binding. 16 pp. Printed wrappers. Stapled binding. A brief pictorial account of the flood of July 7, 1935, which affected the Southern Tier region of New York State and caused over 40 deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Rather scarce - only 5 copies located in OCLC. View more info
By: Tyler, Sydney
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Minter Company: 1906
Seller ID: 2286813
No jacket. Front board lightly toned, pencil gift note on second blank. 1906 Hard Cover. 424 pp. A full account of the recent terrible destruction of life and property by earthquake, fire and volcano in California and at Vesuvius, and a brief account of ancient and modern earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in all parts of the world. With an interesting chapter on the causes of this and other earthquakes,--growing mountains and volcanoes, by Ralph Stockman Tarr. View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285053
First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 462 pp. 8vo. Map illustrated endpapers & several photographs. Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires t... View more info
