[Rarebooks] Newsflash: San Fran "A Sea of Fire"

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[San Francisco Earthquake].   "A SEA OF FIRE."  [Headline for the] 
Alameda Daily Argus.  Alameda, California:  Thursday, April 19. 1906. 
Alameda:  1906.  4 pp.  1 sheet folded once horizontally [publisher 
fold].   ~ 22" x 15".   Printed self-wrappers.   The usually browning 
to paper, with a bit of brittleness to extremities, and some minor 
chipping @ bottom of sheet [no text affected].  Withal, a VG copy. 
$275.

"LATEST NEWS:  San Francisco, April 19, 11:45 a. m. -- All hope of 
saving any portion of San Francisco has fled and the most sanguine 
are now of the opinion that the city will be wiped off the earth." 
So begins a local newspaper's account relating the fate of the city 
that had just suffered the effects of what was to eventually be known 
as the most powerful earthquake ever to strike modern civilization. 
Despite the extensive devastation wrought by Mother Nature, recovery 
did come, & today we are able to thank God those pundits were proven 
very wrong.

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