Spring Street: A Story of Los Angeles
Times-Mirror Press, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Southern California
Long Beach Art Deco (CA) (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. At 5:55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, Southern California was rocked by a massive earthquake. Wood-frame bungalows lost their chimneys, and engineered concrete buildings suffered minimal damage. But unreinforced masonry buildings near the epicenter failed catastrophically, and Long Beach was.....
Arcadia (Images of America: California)
Arcadia Publishing, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Santa Anita Rancho's famously ambitious and colorful owner, Elias Jackson Lucky Baldwin, had established a popular tourist attraction on his productive working ranch by the late 1800s. Baldwin planned to incorporate the section of his ranch known as Arcadia, but.....
The Port of Los Angeles (Images of America: California)
Arcadia Publishing, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor.....
Location Filming in the Alabama Hills (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Forged from glaciers and sacred to Native Americans, the mountains, boulders, and rocks of the Alabama Hills mirror landscapes found all over the world. A scenic three-hour drive from the Hollywood sign, this location would prove to serve as the.....
Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town (Creating the North American Landscape)
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 183 pages. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a date written in ink written on the front free endpaper. When twenty-two-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in.....
Los Angeles Then and Now
Pub Group West Promotional, June 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Los Angeles, the City of Angels, is the capital of show business, where to be young and beautiful is to have it all. Los Angeles Then & Now is a captivating chronicle of.....
Rising Tide, The: Southern California in the Twenties and Thirties
Union Tribune, January 1968. Hardcover. Second printing. A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket.
The light of learning: An illustrated history of the Los Angeles Public Library
Library Foundation of Los Angeles, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
San Juan Capistrano Community Presbyterian Church 1919-1959
Cook, C. Russell (chairman), [1959]. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 23 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan wrappers (paperback).
Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California (set of 12 color postcards)
Glenwood Mission Inn, n.d., ca. 1930. Trade Paperback. 12 color postcards, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, of the Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California. Title on envelope 'California Mission Inn, Riverside,' with a quote from David Starr Jordan praising Frank Miller 'to dream of the hotel that ought to be; to turn.....
Seventh Annual Report and Roster
The Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1911. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 27 unnumbered pages. Also includes the third annual report of the Southwest Museum. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Ink signature stamp of Chas. F. Lummis on front cover. Mild surface soiling. Split.....
Freeman Junction: The escape route of the Mississippians and Georgians from Death Valley in 1849
Inland Printing and Engraving Co, 1961. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. Illustrations in color. Includes Program for Dedication of Freeman Junction Monument. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in green wrappers (paperback).
Choice Recipes from Our Mother's Kitchens
Gamma Sigma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 24 recipes typed on 24 unnumbered pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated purple wrappers (paperback).
El Monte: 'The End of the Santa Fe Trail'
El Monte Young Adult Historical Society, 1965. Trade Paperback. 24 pages. B/W photographic illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
(Santa Anita Park) (untitled B/W photograph)
Spencer Prange, n.d., ca. 1948. Photograph. B/W photograph, 10.25 x 13.25 inches, mounted to cardboard, 14 x 18 inches. Image of satisfied looking man holding racing form and newspaper. Very good copy Small defect on lower right of photograph.
typed letter signed
1938. Trade Paperback. Typed letter signed, on Los Angeles Times letterhead, dated January 3, 1938, addressed 'Dear Mr. (Edward F.) O'Day.' Letter thanks O'Day for a essay O'Day, as editor, had written for the State Bar Journal and inquires about other essays by O'Day. Edgar Vincent Durling (1893-1957) was a......
Yoncalla: Home of the Eagles
Anne Applegate Kruse. Printed at Drain Enterprise Print, 1951. Trade Paperback. 61 pages. 6 full-page B/W illustrations. Photograph on inside cover of George A. Burt, first sheriff of Yoncalla. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback).Tanning to covers.
The Historic Valley of Temecula: Thriving, Tempting Temecula of 1909
Paisano Press Librito, 1987. Trade Paperback. 28 unnumbered pages. B/.W illustrations. Second printing. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Pasadena Summer and Winter. Pasadena cordially invites the Affiliated Exchange Clubs of California May 23, 24, 25, 1929
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association, 1929. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. B/W photographic images including 2-page aerial view showing City Hall, Public Library and Maryland Hotel, pages 16-17. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Albert Billings Ruddock 1886-1970
California Institute of Technology, 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 20 pages. B/W photographic portrait of Ruddock page 6. Pamphlet reproduces the speaker's remarks at a memorial service held July 31 at CIT. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in tan wrappers (paperback).
Licenses and Police Regulations Ordinance No. 672: An Ordinance regulating and licensing certain kinds of business in the County of Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, n.d., ca. 1910. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in newsprint. Pages browned and fragile.
Lady Adams 'A.A.A.'
Los Angeles Chapter English-Speaking Union, [1942]. First Edition. Trade Paperback. ii, 13 pp. Frontispiece illustration of Alice A. Adams. Stevens's eulogy at memorial service at St. Columba's Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1942. The English-Speaking Union was formed in 1918 with the aim of brining together people of different.....
Henry R. and Blanche C. Wagner
Orange County Historical Society. Printed by Pioneer Press, 1964. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 19 pages. Limited to 500 copies. B/W photographic illustrations. Orange County History Series, Volume Four, Number Two. A eulogy to the collecting and scholarly interests of Henry R. Wagner. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.....
autograph letter signed from James W. Foley to Edward F. O'Day. with 'Of Suffering and Rest and Peace (pamphlet) (2 items)
n.d., ca. 1919. Ephemera. Autograph letter signed, dated September 18, on letterhead of The Pasadena California Evening News, James W. Foley, Assistant Editor. Letter thanks O'Day for 'the sympathetic and friendly review of the play' and sends him 'a prose bit you will like I am sure.' About 60 words.....