[light browning to spine, no other significant wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "Drought, Lawlessness and Smallpox," by Robert Glass Cleland; "The Gabilan Peak Campaign of 1846," by Richard H. Dillon; "El Alisal: The House That Lummis Built," by Dudley Gordon; "Madame Modjeska in California," by Maymie R. Krythe; "Confederates in Southern California," by Helen B. Walters; "From Boulder to the Gulf (Part V)," by Margaret Romer. View More...
[minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "California's Literary Women," by Gustave O. Arlt; "Daily Life in Early Los Angeles," by Mayme R. Krythe; "The Redondo Railroad," by Franklyn Hoyt; "Ozro William Childs," by Hortense Childs Reynolds; "California Volunteers," by A. Hunt; "Rancho Boca de Santa Monica," by Mary Boyce Kennedy; "Antonio Franco Coronel," by Marco R. Newmark. View More...
[minimal handling wear, old price sticker (with information blacked-out) on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: "Edward Fitzgerald Beale and the Indian Peace Commissioners in California, 1851-1854," by Richard E. Crouter and Andrew F. Rolle; "Military Posts of the Old Frontier: Arizona-New Mexico," by Frank A. Schilling; "The Great Debate in California: 1859," by Donald E. Hargis; "Lantern in the Western Sky, Part II (Conclusion)," by Paul M. De Falla (about anti-Chinese riots in Los Angeles in 1871); and "The Church by the Plaza: A History of... View More...
[moderate handling wear, tiny bit of scarring to upper corner of front cover, vertical crease near left edge of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "All-new photo treasury of celebrated scenes and memorabilia, Yesterday & Today," per the cover legend. Small-format paperback featuring approximately 100 photos taken in and around Santa Monica (most of them "historical" but a number also showing then-contemporary sites and scenes), and up the coast as far as Malibu. Nearly forty years on, even the "contemporary" photos will evoke nostalgia in some readers. View More...
[spine moderately turned, small tear at top of spine, previous owner's name at top of ffep; jacket has a few small edge-tears, small chip at top of front panel, minor paper loss at spine ends]. "A young couple's hilarious account of their adventures in running a motel" in a small mid-coastal California town, "San Simon." There is a marginal Hollywood angle, in that the husband is a failed screenwriter, and the first few pages of the book talk about the disillusionment and disappointment that led them to abandon Tinseltown for the glories of motel management. The authors' post... View More...
(pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [moderately worn and lightly soiled copy, bottom corners bumped, small faded spot at base of spine, both hinges starting; private library label (Library of Frank Graves and Frances Babcock Cressey) on front pastedown, accompanied by contemporary gift inscription to Mrs. Cressey "from her fellow-campers in the mountains of Ramona's Country"; a list of some of the author's other books (possibly from the original dust jacket) is tipped onto the second ffep]. (B&W photographs) A thorough discussion of the Ramona story -- its origins, creation, significanc... View More...
[minor bumping to several corners of book; jacket is essentially flawless]. (B&W and color photographs) Approximately 60 photographs of Hollywood and environs back in the day (from the early 1900s through roughly the 1950s), paired directly (on facing pages) with modern-day shots taken from the same vantage points. (All photos are reproduced full-page size). Introduction by long-time honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant; photo captions by well-known Hollywood historian Marc Wanamaker. View More...
(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 the g... View More...
[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 &... View More...
[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." View More...
[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." View More...
[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... View More...
[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 View More...
[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. View More...
[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... View More...
(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 ... View More...
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