N.P.: Hubert D. Russell. 1906. H Hard Cover. Fair. Early twentieth century sensationalism at its best, with lurid accounts of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and of other "interesting and historic disasters" from ancient times to the present day. Illustrated in black and white. Purple cloth printed in gilt with an oval vignette illustration mounted on the front cover, 408 pages. Covers worn, spine sunned, front cover creased, residue from old tape holding the cover on remaining, fairly inept regluing of the spine to the text block, hinges broken. All that said, the text block is sound with no no loosened pages, pages clean with no names or other markings - pages very good overall.