The Berkeley Fire: Memoirs and Mementos

Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Assoc, 1992 (1923). Facsimile edition. Oblong large octavo in tan stapled, stiff paper wraps illustrated and titled in red (unpaged;approx 60 pages): illustrations; 15 x 22 cm. Very fine; as new. Paperback.

Uncommon. Numerous worthwhile photos, illus and maps. Printed on coated stock. " ... facsimile reprints of two pamphlets published at the time of the 1923 Berkeley Fire and reminiscences of that fateful September afternoon by Hildegarde Flanner, whose home was lost in the Fire." Cover title: The Berkeley Fire, September 17, 1923. Berkeley Heritage Association Publication Series; no. 5; [series]. Cover title: The Berkeley Fire, September 17, 1923.

Contents: The Berkeley Fire / compiled by Aubrey Boyd -- Wildfire: Berkeley, 1923 / Hildegarde Flanner -- The story of the Berkeley Fire of September 17, 1923

Incendies -- Californie -- Berkeley. Fires. Geographic: Berkeley (Calif.) -- History. California -- Berkeley.