Description

Doubleday & Company [Published Date: 1972]. Hardcover, 247. Not a first edition but an early printing. Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few 1/2" or less nicks and tears and light creasing to edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Illustrated with photographs. [From front jacket flap] One of the most prominent writers in the American West looks at one of the world's most spectacular metropolitan areas in a variety of ways. He describes the many wonders that are San Francisco's unique setting, and then looks behind and around them - in time and in space - to show how history, man and nature conspired to create a truly magnificent environment. The result is a fresh approach to a famous city revealing, not only her beautiful face, but the centuries of fact, legend and romance that have helped to make it so, and the forces-natural and man-made—working today that will inevitably change it tomorrow.