Search Results: Catastrophes from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Monterey, KY: Larkspur, 1077. Limited. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 32mo., 21 leaves. Number 139 of 250 copies. The quiet musings while waiting for floodwaters of the Kentucky River to recede. In brown wraps, cover pattern printed green.

Sacramento, CA: State of California, Division of Water Resources, 1950. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (approx. 85 pages). Tabular data on rainfall, discharge, and flood levels. Photographs. Maps. Bound in light blue paper wraps, with dark blue spine tape. Library bar-code sticker on rear endpapers. Very Good.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ocatvo. 207 pp. 12 pages of b&w photos. The story of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey fire which could have bankrupted the circus, if a group of Hartford attorneys had not formed an alternate solution, placing the circus in receivership allowing it to generate profits to pay off the litigants.

Washingon, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1989. Paper Monograph. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 276p. OCLC reports there is a copy in Biibliotheek van de Univ van Amsterdam as well as all major university libraries. Very Good.

Washingtion D. C.: Office of Technology Assessment, 1993. Wraps. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 359,383 pages, index, maps, graphs, charts and photographs. Corner creased on volume one. Light scuffing to both books. Previous owner's name inked on ffep of vol. one.

Phoenix, AZ: Water Resources Associates, Inc, 1983. First Edition. Ring Binding. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., (~105pp) Hydrological treatise on flood stage and storage units or all the streams draining the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona. Tales, charts, glossary. In printed cover, with black ring binding, and plastic cover.

Boulder, CO: Institute of Bevaioral Science, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 72pp. Very important discussion of hurricane disaster responses in South Carolina in 1989. Bound in light blue paper wraps. Near Fine.

Austin: University of Texas, 1955. Original Wraps. A Very Good Copy Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Not continuously paginated. Copied typewritten text of reports written on the aftermath of tornadoes in 1953-1954. Errata sheet. Pa pers demographically breaking down information on the effects & response.