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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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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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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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