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THE BIG BURN: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2010). Gripping account by this National Book Award winning author of the worst wild fire in the history of the United States. ÑA wind-swept wildfire that began on August 20, 1910, and consumed three million acres of forest in Idaho, Montana and Washington in just 36 hours. But paradoxically, this forest fire was the event that cemented the heroism of the young Forest Service (only 5 years old at the time) in the public mind and galvanized Teddy Roosevelt's campaign for public lands. Winner of the 2010 Washington State Book Award for history. Map, photographs, notes on sources, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-618-968415.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 78482More details Price: $12.50 -
FIRE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. SIGNED - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0088613.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 23770More details Price: $15.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. SIGNED - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. INSCRIBED on the title page. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. ISBN: 0-06-0088613.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 23771More details Price: $16.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Good only in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 34224More details Price: $16.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35085More details Price: $30.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47361More details Price: $28.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54108More details Price: $17.50 -
"OCIAN IN VIEW": The Malibu / ANGELS BURNING: Native Notes form the Land of Earthquake and Fire. (Volume X, Capra Back-to-Back Series)
Edition: First printing, a small trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Santa Barbara, CA Capra Press, 1987. First edition - Two shorter works in one volume, bound back to back, both dealing with wild fires along the Southern California coast. "Angels Burning "by Thomas Sanchez, originally serialized in Esquire, is a narrative of when Santa Barbara was nearly burnt to the ground. Illustrated with drawings by Stephanie Sanchez (43 pp.) "Ocian in View" by Lawrence Clark Powell, describes a wildfire racing through Malibu and is illustrated with line drawings by Irene Robinson (68 pp.). ISBN: 0-884962652.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 40473More details Price: $12.00