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L.A. Follies: Design and Other Diversions in a Fractured Metropolis

By: Kaplan, Sam Hall

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Santa Monica CA, Cityscape Press: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 10685

ISBN: 0-9622007-0-0

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[moderate edgewear, previous owner's stamp on title page, a little peeling damage (from label removal) at top of front cover]. Trade PB "A critical look at growth, politics and architecture" in Los Angeles; a collection of the author's pieces from the Los Angeles Times.
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...And Bring All Your Folks [SIGNED]

By: Miller, Max

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 14573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid copy, light dust-soiling to top edge, minor shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows moderate surface wear, reinforced with tape across top and bottom of spine and about 2/3 of the way across front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, a long (full-page) inscription to friends dated Christmas 1959. "A lighthearted examination of the Southern California islands and some off Mexico -- in case we get crowded off the mainland." Signed by Author
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The State of California; Growing Up Foreign in the Backyards of Eden

By: Pejovich, Ted

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1989

Seller ID: 4820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight, clean copy, virtually as new; very minor surface wear to jacket].
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Pasadena Area History

By: Pineda, Manuel, and E. Caswell Perry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pasadena CA, James W. Anderson: 1972

Seller ID: 13590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

(embossed decorative cover; no dust jacket, as issued) [solid clean copy, moderate wear at extremities, top right-hand corner of front cover is bumped and frayed]. (B&W and color photographs) Per the introduction, this book is "more than just an updating of Pasadena history. Manny Pineda has given a great deal of attention to some special topics well worth developing as a part of the background to the present level of Pasadena's accomplishments. He has treated very fully the history of Pasadena's city departments -- Fire, Police, Water, Light and Power, and the Library. He has traced t...
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How to Survive in the City [SIGNED]

By: Prelutsky, Burt

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], Lakeworld: 1971

Seller ID: 6819

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[mild edgewear, slight dog-earing to upper corners, mild creases in a couple of pages]. Trade PB (cartoon illustrations) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "The City" of the title (although nothing about the book's design betrays this fact) is Los Angeles, and although this book -- the author's first -- has long since ceased to have much practical value, it is an absolutely wonderful snapshot of L.A. in the early 1970's, giving a long-time resident's lowdown on the local traffic, crime, culture, shopping, recreation, pollution, earthquakes, etc. There's even a chapter on &...
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L.A. Unconventional: The Men and Women Who Did L.A. Their Way

By: Rasmussen, Cecilia

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Times: 1998

Seller ID: 24658

ISBN: 1883792231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) "Los Angeles, it is often said, is a place that beckons those who seem driven to defy the ordinary. People who see possibility where others see roadblocks. People who bend -- and occasionally break -- the rules. People who aren't afraid to pursue their ambitions, no matter how far beyond the norms of the time they are. This is a collection of stories about such men and women."
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Jewish Life in Los Angeles

By: Sandberg, Neil C.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lanham MD, University Press of America: (c.1986)

Seller ID: 9809

ISBN: 0-8191-5439-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, minor shelfwear; jacket shows some edgewear, small tear and associated creasing at top of rear panel]. (tables) "The experience of the Los Angeles Jewish community, the second largest Jewish population in the world, offers a case study of what is happening to Jews throughout the United States. This volume, based on sociological research into a community which carries within it the seeds of American Jewry's future, examines the attitudes behind these current trends."
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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

By: Solnit, Rebecca (text), and Susan Schwartzenberg (photographs)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London/New York, Verso: 2000

Seller ID: 16033

ISBN: 1-85984-794-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, small shallow dent at bottom of rear cover, no other significant wear; jacket shows a little surface rubbing, mostly to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) This collaboration between writer-historian Solnit and photographer Schwartzenberg examines what they see as the "cultural impoverishment" of San Francisco "as a result of new forms and distributions of wealth," specifically the boom economy (linked to venture capital and the internet) which characterized the city during the preceding two decades. The book "surveys San Francisco's transformation -- skyrock...
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San Francisco: The Spirit of the City, 1935-1985

By: Soreff, Elizabeth Daniels, et al.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cupertino CA, California History Center / De Anza College: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 25443

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, light handling wear only]. (Local History Studies, Volume 12) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Essentially a history of San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan Association, inside of which is a nice collection of photographs of various city scenes and landmarks, both historical and modern-day. 36 pages in total (including covers), eight of which are about SFFS: the first four a narrative history of the instititution, the last four an timeline of its public image, illustrated with reproductions of related newspaper ads and news stories
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Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

By: Starr, Kevin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 24670

ISBN: 0195034899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[just minor handling wear to both book and jacket]. (Americans and the California Dream) Series (B&W photographs) The second volume in the author's "passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State . . . focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and, in particular, the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. [Starr] examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture and literature,...
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The Pink Palace Revisited: Behind Closed Doors at the Beverly Hills Hotel

By: Stuart, Sandra Lee, and John Prince

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fort Lee NJ, Barricade Books Inc.:

Seller ID: 24388

ISBN: 0942637844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[the faintest bit of foxing on top edge of text block, otherwise a nice clean book; jacket a bit rubbed, one tiny puncture-wound at left edge of front panel]. (B&W photographs) A follow-up to Stuart's 1978 book "The Pink Palace," this volume provides "an up-to-the-minute look at what has happened to the Beverly Hills Hotel in recent times [and] an insider's peek behind the scenes of one of the most famous hotels in the world [where] virtually every star and wannabe has scooped avocado dip in the legendary Polo Lounge." (Her newly-acquired co-author, John Prince, is described ...
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Greetings from Los Angeles: A Visit to the City of Angels in Postcards

By: Tucker, Kerry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge MA, Steam Press: 1982

Seller ID: 17110

ISBN: 0-942820-00-2

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very slight bends (not creases) in front cover; still appears almost new]. Trade PB (color reproductions) Reproductions of 80 full-color vintage postcards of famous L.A. buildings and other sites, from the Hollywood Bowl to the Watts Towers. The great majority of the cards date between 1904 and 1950, and each is captioned with additional historical and background information; the book also includes a brief essay about collecting L.A. postcards.
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The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties

By: Tygiel, Jules

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 18320

ISBN: 0-19-505489-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice-looking book, very faint soiling to bottom page edges; jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The history of the "wonderfully complex" Julian Petroleum Corporation swindle, inextricably linked with the story of the Southern California oil/real estate boom of the 1920s, which had "as many unexpected twists and turns as any mystery novel." It ranks with the Teapot Dome mess (which of course also has its L.A. connections, through Edward L. Doheny) as one of the defining scandals of the day.
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Four and Twenty Beds

By: Vogel, Nancy

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Beechhurst Press: (c.1950)

Seller ID: 14133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear at spine extremities, spine moderately turned; jacket has small tears at several corners, a bit of wear along top edge, minor paper loss at top of spine, one small chip at bottom of rear panel]. Rollicking (it sez here) tale of a couple who buy a motel in the California desert, with visions of "a hostelry for weary travelers and a dream of freedom in the country. Months later (wiser by years) they were forced to admit the facts: they had invested in a playground for a practical joker, an amorous old maid, and other transient eccentrics, while the dictates of business, running...
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Exploring Small Towns: 1. Southern California

By: Yeadon, David

Price: $40.00

Publisher: [Pasadena CA], The Ward Ritchie Press: (c.1973)

Seller ID: 24410

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[light edgewear to covers, several crease lines in rear cover]. Trade PB (pen and ink drawings, maps) Vintage guidebooks have a charm all their own, both as windows into what their subject area was like "back when" and as challenges to modern-day tourists or explorers to seek out whatever traces might remain today. And when a book like this one -- which was conceived largely as a nostalgic exercise to begin with -- has aged yet another 45 years, the nostalgia factor sort of doubles down on itself, and the natural impulse (mine, anyway) is to wonder how many of these small-town landmar...
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El Rodeo [1931 USC Yearbook]

By: [University of Southern California] Morehouse, Morton, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, University of Southern California: 1931

Seller ID: 15787

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

(no dust jacket, as issued) [a solid copy, but with light dampstaining and page-rippling (mostly along the top edge), and some moderate external soiling to covers, all obviously the result of having gotten a little bit damp at some point; there's also a small nick to the front joint; binding fully intact, internally clean]. (B&W photographs, color graphics) 1930 yearbook of the University of Southern California, covering the 1930/1931 academic and sporting activities at the school. As you might imagine, much space is given to the latter; there are accounts (with photographs) of each game of ...
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