Maurice Newmark (48 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 3rd Edition. 3rd Edition. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 4to with 744 pages. The book is in very good condition with very slight shelfwear and bumping to the edges. The interior is mostly clean and tight with very slight yellowing from age and a gift inscription on the front fly leaf. The spine is red with gold text. Size: 4to. Hardcover.

hardcover. Condition: good. Spine cocked. Back hinge cracked. 3rd edition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Photographic Plates, 182 Illustrations (illustrator). Third Edition, Revised and Augmented. Xxxv, 744 Pp. Red Cloth. First Printing, 1930 Date On Title Page, Of This Third, Revised Edition Of These Massive Reminiscences Of Early Los Angeles By The Head Of Its Most Prominent Banking Family Circa 1880-1920. Light Wear, Gilt Complete But Faint, Cloth Clean, No Marks, Front Hinge Mostly Cracked, Endpapers With Some Browning As Usual, Fraying At Ends Of Spine. Per Wikipedia, Harris Newmark (1834 - 1916) Was A Jewish American Businessman, Philanthropist, And Historian Who Was Born In The West Prussian City Of Löbau (Now Lubawa, Poland). Newmark Immigrated To The United States In 1853. He Sailed From Europe To New York City, And Then To San Francisco. He Joined His Older Brother And Other Family In Los Angeles. His Branch Of The Family Were Among The Founders And Developers Of The Region. At The End Of 1885, Newmark Retired From The Grocery Business To Devote More Time To His Real Estate And Investment Pursuits. In 1886, He And Four Other Businessmen: His Nephew Kaspare Cohn, John D. Bicknell, Stephen M. White, And I.W. Hellman?Purchased A 5,000-Acre (20 Km2) Ranch Located In East Los Angeles Called Rancho Repetto. The Land Had Been Owned By An Italian Settler Named Alessandro Repetto, Who Had Bequeathed The Ranch To His Brother Antonio. Newmark's Group Bought The Inheritance For Us$60,000, Or About $12 Per Acre. In May 1899, Newmark Subdivided The Tract Owned By Him And His Nephew, After Contracting With William Mulholland To Design And Construct A Suitable Water System For The New Settlement. Accounts Differ As To The Actual Size Of Newmark And Cohn's Parcel, But It Was Somewhere Around 1,200 To 1,500 Acres (6.1 Km2). A Piece Of This Tract, Adjacent To The Tracks Of The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, Was Developed Into A Town Site Called Newmark. The Remaining Land Was Subdivided Into 5-Acre (2.0 Ha) Lots Suitable For Small-Scale Agriculture. The Entire Settlement, Including The Newmark Town Site, Was Given The Name Montebello. When The Town Incorporated In 1920, It Renamed The City As Montebello. Newmark Contributed To Developing Many Local Institutions, Such As The Los Angeles County Library And Others Supporting Children's Welfare. He Wrote A Memoir, Sixty Years In Southern California: 1853-1913, Which Has Been Cited In Dozens Of Academic Papers And Books. It Is Described As The Los Angeles Equivalent Of A Pepys Diary.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). A little fraying at foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Not a POD or modern reprint. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library with spine numbers present. Library bookplate on front paste down, a portion of dust jacket front fold tipped onto front flyleaf, front panel of jacket affixed to rear paste down. Illustrated with b&w photos. Light rubbing at extremities. Contents clean and tight. PayPal accepted.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontis page loose. Third edition, Revised and Augmented with 182 illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket as issued. A solidly bound copy, a 3" split along the rear joint down from the head of the spine. Otherwise boards and spine showing some light wear and soiling, corners rubbed. Intermittent pencil notations. Small chip out at the top corner of the FFEP. 8vo large. 139pp. A suitable reading copy.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Photographic Plates (illustrator). Third Edition, Revised and Augmented. Xxxv, 744 Pp. Red Cloth. First Printing With 1930 Date On Title Page Of This Third, Revised Edition Of These Massive Reminiscences Of Early Los Angeles By The Head Of Its Most Prominent Banking Family Circa 1880-1920. Light Wear, Gilt Lettering Weak But Readable, Cloth Clean, No Marks, Hinges Solid, Endpapers With Some Browning As Usual, No Fraying. No Marks. Per Wikipedia, Harris Newmark (1834 - 1916) Was A Jewish American Businessman, Philanthropist, And Historian Who Was Born In The West Prussian City Of Löbau (Now Lubawa, Poland). Newmark Immigrated To The United States In 1853. He Sailed From Europe To New York City, And Then To San Francisco. He Joined His Older Brother And Other Family In Los Angeles. His Branch Of The Family Were Among The Founders And Developers Of The Region. At The End Of 1885, Newmark Retired From The Grocery Business To Devote More Time To His Real Estate And Investment Pursuits. In 1886, He And Four Other Businessmen: His Nephew Kaspare Cohn, John D. Bicknell, Stephen M. White, And I.W. Hellman?Purchased A 5,000-Acre (20 Km2) Ranch Located In East Los Angeles Called Rancho Repetto. The Land Had Been Owned By An Italian Settler Named Alessandro Repetto, Who Had Bequeathed The Ranch To His Brother Antonio. Newmark's Group Bought The Inheritance For Us$60,000, Or About $12 Per Acre. In May 1899, Newmark Subdivided The Tract Owned By Him And His Nephew, After Contracting With William Mulholland To Design And Construct A Suitable Water System For The New Settlement. Accounts Differ As To The Actual Size Of Newmark And Cohn's Parcel, But It Was Somewhere Around 1,200 To 1,500 Acres (6.1 Km2). A Piece Of This Tract, Adjacent To The Tracks Of The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, Was Developed Into A Town Site Called Newmark. The Remaining Land Was Subdivided Into 5-Acre (2.0 Ha) Lots Suitable For Small-Scale Agriculture. The Entire Settlement, Including The Newmark Town Site, Was Given The Name Montebello. When The Town Incorporated In 1920, It Renamed The City As Montebello. Newmark Contributed To Developing Many Local Institutions, Such As The Los Angeles County Library And Others Supporting Children's Welfare. He Wrote A Memoir, Sixty Years In Southern California: 1853-1913, Which Has Been Cited In Dozens Of Academic Papers And Books. It Is Described As The Los Angeles Equivalent Of A Pepys Diary.

Condition: Good. 4to. 96 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Yellow Cloth Board with Gilt Lettering. Dust Jacket: VG. Color Photographs. First Edition.

Condition: New. In.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine, bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering, pages evenly browned, no jacket, foldout map is Fine. 139 pages, black and white photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Cloth mildly soiled/worn. Pages lightly toned. Frontis portrait. Firm binding. ; quarto; 139 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition, revised and augmented. This title is one of the important books in the Zamorano Eighty list of books on California and the American West. Octavo rebound in library-type, green buckram. B&W illustrations. Condition: rebound in a pretty clunky binding, but judging from the absence of library markings, was probably done as a utilitarian measure. The binding is rubbed & a bit worn; there is a previous owner's inked and phone number on the 1st free endpaper and above that is the rubber-stamp of an old L. A. bookshop that's no longer in business. Endpapers are toned. Otherwise, this a good, tight, and very serviceable copy. Pages: xxxiii, 732.

Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised and augmented edition of this classic. Contains an Introduction and notes by W. W. Robinson. Thick octavo in red cloth covered boards. 744 pages illustrated with historic photographs. A bright and crisp copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Embark on a captivating journey through the eyes of a young man as he leaves his humble beginnings in Prussia for the bustling streets of New York City and eventually the sun-soaked landscapes of 1850s Los Angeles. This book offers a vibrant tapestry of personal anecdotes, historical insights, and cultural observations that paint a vivid picture of a rapidly evolving era. The author's experiences as a Jewish immigrant in Gold Rush-era California provide a unique lens through which to explore themes of identity, adaptation, and the pursuit of the American Dream. His encounters with prominent figures, everyday people, and the challenges and triumphs of frontier life offer a compelling glimpse into a bygone era. Through meticulous detail and engaging storytelling, this book delves into the transformation of Los Angeles from a sleepy pueblo to a burgeoning metropolis, capturing the spirit of innovation, resilience, and community that shaped the city's destiny. The author's reflections on his 60-year journey offer timeless insights into the enduring human spirit and the transformative power of embracing new horizons. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth. Cloth slightly foxed/sunned, interior/edge has occasional foxing. Laid in is a TLS on M. A Newmark & Company letterhead, dated 7 November 1927, signed by Marco Newmark to Mrs. Hector Alliott, regarding the census and asking her for a photo of Hector. (book itself not signed. ) ; quarto; 139 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Third Edition, 1930, xxxv + 744 pp., illustrations. Red hardcover lightly worn with some fraying to head of spine. Internally clean in very good condition.

Condition: Good. 4to. 139 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue-Green Cloth Boards with Gilt Lettering. B&W Illustrations, Photographs. Single fold out map of Los Angeles City (Ord's Survey). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. 139, [1]pp. Original olive cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Frontispiece portrait of Hector Alliot. In this work author Marco Newmark also documents the first Jewish residents of Los Angeles and the Spanish Land grant families. First publication from an apparently unique original draft saved from the rubbish-heap fire by the legendary Cecil B. de Mille, who graciously presented it to the Southwest Museum. Includes 7 pages of b/w photographic reproductions, 1 fold out plan, and 6 facsimile pages from the original census. Minor scratch on front cover. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Thus. Green cloth boards clean and tight, small rubbed area to front cover. Binding is tight, corners sharp and inner pages unmarked. B/w frontis, Hector Alliot, director of the Southwest Museum. The Museum was presented with the original manuscript by director Cecil B. DeMille. In the course of filming near the San Fernando Misson DeMIlle noticed the original draft in a burning pile of rubbish from one of the Mission barns. " Finding the manuscript, which had already become slightly singed, he rescued it and removed it to his studio." Single fold-out map.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Moderate rubbing otherwise an especially fine, clean, unmarked, bright, tight copy. Owner's name to front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Third edition, Signed & inscribed by Marco R. Newmark on inside of half title page, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly shaken, owner's bookplate to front endpaper, text is clean with no markings, binding is still holding, Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.