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Published by Private Printing, 1959
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Red leatherette boards clean with sharp corners, address label front endpaper. Descendants of Henry Palmer who immigrated to Watertown, Massachusetts before 1635, later removing to Wethersfield, Connecticut and then Greenwich. Index.; MCN22660; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pp.
Published by Self-published, Hollywood, California, 1938
Seller: Champ & Mabel Collectibles, San Pedro, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Revised & Expanded Edition. 294p. 2nd printing. Volume 1 only. Front endpaper inelegantly removed, cover corners worn and a few pages dog-eared and lightly creased at bottom corner. From the foreword, "The author stands corrected and the present volume presents the original text with such corrections as have been made and verified. There have also been added some notes on a comprehensive economic survey of Hollywood just completed by the University of Southern California Bureau of Business Research." Palmer was a New York-born, Colombia University-trained "physician who served as Hollywood's City Health Officer in 1906." He became president of the Hollywood National Bank and Citizens Savings Bank in Hollywood. In addition to professional organizations, Palmer was a member of the Masons, University Club, and Catalina Island's Tuna Club. [Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)] [Nunis; 1298]. 28 b&w halftone photo plates and frontispiece. (9-1/4"x6-1/4").
Published by Hollywood, Ca. 1938, 1938
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, Sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised and extended ed., 294 pp., frontis., plates, index, fabricoid, nice 6-Guns #1673. Contains material on Vasquez, scare in either printing.
Published by Edwin O. Palmer, Hollywood, 1938
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original cloth. Revised and extended edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Palmer to the 2nd ffep. Slight edgewear, toning to endpages. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 294 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Edwin O. Palmer, Hollywood, 1938
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised and extended edition (published a year after the first edition). Tall octavo. 294pp. Illustrated. Bookplate on second blank, small printed publisher's blurb detached on front fly, bookstore label on front pastedown, and a touch of rubbing on the boards, near fine in very good dust jacket with some modest chipping mostly at the spine ends. Uncommon in jacket.
Published by Arthur H. Cawston, 1937
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two volumes first edition brown cloth with blind stamp decoration and gilt titling. Light wear to edges and points. Solid bindings. Light toning. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.
Published by Edwin O. Palmer, Hollywood 1938, 1938
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
9 x 6 inches, 294 pages, gold-stamped fabricoid, Dust Jacket (chipped at top edge, tape repairs to interior side), Signed by the author on preliminary blank, Palmer traces the history of Hollywood from prehistoric times to his day, and while his account of the geologic formation of the city is likely conjectural, and Palmer admits that much of his information comes from his own memory and that of Hollywood's "Old Settlers," and that "many errors must have crept in," his book is yet a valuable resource for study of "the world's most famous hamlet". With additions and corrections from the first edition of 1937. Second Edition edition. Very good, slight acid stains to front and rear endpapers. Very good, slight acid stains to front and rear endpapers.