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Chase Marilyn

The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

Random House 2003 First Edition,

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Author
Chase Marilyn
Publishers
Random House 2003 First Edition
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, hardcover in dj. pp.276. A science reporter for The Wall Street Journal describes an epidemic of bubonic plague that erupted in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, first in 1900 and then five years later, and the efforts of scientists Joseph Kinyoun, Dr. Rupert Blue, and Blue's aide Colby Rucker to contain the disease, discover its source, and eradicate it from the city.