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.....
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.....
Union Tribune, January 1968. Hardcover. Second printing. A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket.
Library Foundation of Los Angeles, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Hastings House, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 433 pages. Illustrated. American Guide series. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket. Spine toned. Split at the gutter at the title page. Previous owner's name on the half-title.
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, 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.....
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.....
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).
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 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).
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.
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......
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.
Paisano Press Librito, 1987. Trade Paperback. 28 unnumbered pages. B/.W illustrations. Second printing. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
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).
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).
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
W. Donald Smith, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 64 pages. 17 short stories. 'This little selection is taken from stories I wrote during the past two years in my trailer for amusement in camp. Some are fiction; some result from direct experience, others from hearsay. All have been my pleasure.....
Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 898 pages. 36 unnumbered leaves of plates. A massive history of Southern California. Individual communities are discussed, as are agricultural development and infrastructure. The history is followed by hundreds of biographical sketches of notable citizens. Remains a useful historical record of Southern California.....
Ethel Jacobson, 1964. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12 unnumbered pages. Oblong pamphlet, 5 x 8 inches. Ethel Jacobson was an Orange County poet of light verse. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated white wrappers (paperback).
Friends of the Library. University of California, Irvine. Printed by Kalawpa Press, n.d. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 10 pages including 4-page facsimile of letter. Keepsake Number Three issued by The Friends of the Library. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in decorated wrappers (paperback), string-tied.