New York: Warner / Madison Press, 1994. Marschall, Ken. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Dust jacket edges lightly worn.
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.....
New York: Warner / Madison Press, 1994. Marschall, Ken. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Scratch on front jacket panel.
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.....
Thailand: T.B.R.C. Co., Ltd., 2007. Large Softcover.
Cover edges lightly rubbed.
60 pp. Four page photo insert inside. This book gives a brief introduction to the tragic story of the Thai-Burma Railway. Using extensive quotes and original photographs of life and work on the line, it aims to capture the.....
Cleveland, Ohio: Freshwater Press, 1971. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fifth printing. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket reverse lightly foxed. Front board and page ridges lightly foxed.
xv, 368 pp. 8vo. '... true tales of dozens of thrilling Great Lakes shipwrecks... Heroic rescues from Duluth to the St. Lawrence... covering a period.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1971. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Faint toning, light edge wear.
368 pp. Contains over 275 photographs. A collection of photographs and first-hand accounts of the San Francisco earthquake.
. A.L. Burt. Hard Cover.
A.L. Burt Home Library edition. Boards lightly rubbed.
A fictional retelling of the doomed city in the years leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1987. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. A fine copy.
xx, 268 pp. In October 1947, Maine was engulfed by the worst fire in its history. Before the flames were quenched, 200,000 acres had burned. This is the definitive account of those terrible and exciting.....
Windsor: Fountain Press, 1984. Kristof, Emory. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed, 1 inch closed jacket tear and 1/2 inch closed jacket tear, sticker on front jacket flap.
227 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout. "Cain presents eyewitness accounts of the naval campaigns in which Hamilton.....
New York: Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom edge of front jacket panel bumped. Page ridges lightly foxed.
vi, 362 pp. "Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroids—these things used to worry us from.....
NJ: Patrick Stephens Limited, 1996. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges slightly worn.
320 pp. This book is a fully detailed listing of nearly 11,000 passenger aircraft that have suffered an accident, either on the ground or in the air, and, in consequence, have never flown again.
Waukesha: Country Beautiful, 1973. Large Hardcover.
Jacket faintly rubbed.
208 pp. A look at the most deadly and destructive fires to have ever occurred in America.
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New York: Mariner Books, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Sticker remnant to spine, smudge to bottom ridge.
352 pp. "On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes.....
New York: Vintage Books, 2010. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. First few pages lightly creased.
337 pp. Selected for World Book Night U.S. The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Bottom corner of front cover creased.
xvi, 475 pp. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya. As part of the.....
Napoli: Liguori Editore, 1991. 1st Printing. Large Softcover.
First paperback printing. Corners slightly pushed.
307 pp. Italian text. A collection of historical accounts of Mount Vesuvius, based on nearly 100 works, mostly from the 17th-19th centuries, but also including references dating as far back as the the first century A.D......
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, advance review copy with slip tipped in on half-title page, which states the publication date as Sep 12 1932, and the retail price as $3.00 (the equivalent of $57 today!). Boards faintly soiled, top edge faintly stained.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket flap price-clipped.
xii, 301 pp. Only account of the top secret chemical weapon spill. In late November, 1943, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander in chief of the German troops in Italy, desperately sought a means of slowing.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased, small tear to top edge of front cover, pages lightly toned.
299 pp. "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson.....
Hartford, Conn. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge starting, ink gift note on front free endpaper.
76 pp. Includes 8 engravd plates from photographs by E. Valentine and N.R. Worden. An account of the F4 tornado that struck Wallingford, Connecticut on.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Tiny crease to jacket flap.
430 pp. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a......
New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1968. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
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.
302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. The.....
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Remainder mark.
302 pp. "The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Near fine, but lacks jacket.
240 pp. Illustrated with photographs. The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ.....
New York: Longmeadow Press, 1991. Susan Brady. 4th Printing. Large Hardcover.
Fourth printing. Jacket edges lightly toned.
191 pp. The Associated Press commemorates the events at Pearl Harbor with this stunning special edition. Packed with more than 100 photos-some never before published-Pearl Harbor intricately explores the historic relationship between Japan.....
Boston, Massachusetts: National Fire Protection Association, 1974. Stapled Binding.
No large chips, no stickers, no tears, no writing.
21 discontinuous volumes of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Volumes include A Study of Church Fires (No. FR 74-3, 1974); Refinery Tank Farms (FR 68-2, 1968); Occupancy Fire Record: Petroleum Bulk Plants.....