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Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, LA, 1958
Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Revised edition. Bump to head of spine. Issued without dust jacket.
Published by The Automobile Club Of Southern California, Beverly Hills, 1929
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 66 Pp. Color Cover Reproduced A Painting Of Lo Angeles Harbor By Loren Barton. Covers Detached But Present, A Few Words On Front Cover Referring To Contents, A Few Erased Pencil Check Marks In Table Of Contents.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 66 pp., Duncan Gleason painting of San Luis Rey Mission on the front cover, articles include "Cathedrals of the Wilderness" on the northern-most missions in Lower California by John S. Gorby, "Voyager Cook" by Hinda Teague Hill, "Days - and Nights - in Old Panamint" by Philip Johnston, "Antoine Robidoux, Southwestern Fur Trader" by Joseph J. Hill, "The Valley of the Monuments" by Bernice Eastman Johnston, "The High Priest of Flora" on Willis Linn Jepson by Harold D. Carew, "A Pageant of Tradition" by Junius Cravens on Maynard Dixon's mural for the California State Library in Sacramento and six historical murals of the Los Angeles Public Library by Albert Herter, "The House of the Frog Pond" by Marjorie T. Wolcott on Rancho Guajome, "Land of the Lei" by David Heenan, Jr., great period ads and much more. Chipping and some separation at the spine ends and some light edge wear and some light damp wrinkling along the top edges. Mailing label on the front cover. Scarce.
Published by The Automobile Club Of Southern California, Beverly Hills, 1931
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover By Carl Oscar Borg, Wood Block Portrait By Franz Geritz, Illustrations By Viola French, Raymond P. Winters, Victor Mall, Photographs By Ernest M. Pratt And Viroque Baker (illustrator). 1st Edition. 40 Pp. Light Wear, Center Crease Visible On Front Cover, Darkening To Most Of Pp 6-7 Where A Clipping Had Been Laid In.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California, 1934
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 42pp. richly illustrated with articles. In this Issue- "White Mountain Magic" (Sierra Nevadas); "Mysteries of Pacific Deeps"; "Stage Wheels over the Pedres' Trail"; "Pedro and the Automobile"; "The Native Cypress of Carmel Bay"; "Yosemite as the Man-Birds Glimpse It" (photos by the Air Corps, US Army) and more. Cover detached, but present. General overall wear.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 34 pp., richly illustrated with articles: Cover woodblock by Paul Landacre. Features include "Saga of the Twenty-Mule Team" by Ed Stiles, "In Life the Firmest Friend" with dog etchings by Walter E. Bohl, "Yesterday's Animals of the San Joaquin" and Westways "Trip of the Month" Among the Joshua Trees. Slight silverfish damage at fore edge of front cover.
Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, 1958
Signed
Boards. Condition: Very Good Minus. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. 87 pp. Preface by Editor Lawrence Clark Powell. Edition limited to 1000 un-numbered copies, printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by both Lawrence Clark Powell and Jake Zeitlin: "For John B. Lee for auld lang syne Larry Powell / Jake 11/11/58". Also signed and dated by Larry G. Powell. SIGNED on the colophon by Lawrence Clark Powell. Yellow boards; printed paper labels on spine and front cover. 5" x 7 3/4". Book list laid in. Second and best edition. Several lists by learned individuals of what each regards as the 20 most important books about California. First published in 1931, this revised edition was published in tribute to Phil Hanna after his death in 1957. The revised edition includes lists by Leslie E. Bliss, Robert E. Cowan, Henry R. Wagner, Phil Hanna, Glen Dawson, Warren R. Howell, as well as Powell's own list of the 25 most important books published between 1931 and 1957. A Very Good Minus copy (soiled; stain to lower left cover), now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail, to any United States address.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California, 1933
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. General overall wear. Splittting to top and bottom of spine, vertical crease in magazine likely when mailed. 42 pp, richly illustrated with articles Features include "Over the Sierra from Sequoia to Whitney"; "The Lure of the Verdant San Juans"; "When Kino led the Way to California"; "Television for the Home (is just around the corner)"; "Those Galapagos" and many more.
Published by The Automobile Club of Southern California, 1935
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 42 pp., richly illustrated with articles. Issue includes: "California Through the Camera's Eye", "The Mighty Kings" (Canyon of the Kings); "Los Coronados - Mecca of Ocean Anglers"; "What of Ehrenberg?"; "The California Marine Sand Crab"; "Lost Pueblo of the Forties"'; "The Battle for South Pacific Ports" and more. General overall wear, vertical crease in magazine, likely when mailed. Cover has stamp Crowell Books and Magzines.
Published by The Automobile Club Of Southern California, Beverly Hills, 1929
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 66 Pp. Color Cover Reproduced A Painting Of Redwoods By Marie B. Kendall. Light Wear, Some Writing On Front Cover Referring To The Contents.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. General overall wear. 42 pp., richly illustrated with articles: "Seeing California with Edward Weston: The California Coast - San Diego to Monterey" by Edward Weston which was later collected with 20 other "Seeing California" articles in Westways into a 1939 book "Seeing California with Edward Weston"; "Tides West" monthly column by Care McWilliams; "Professional Heroes of the Surf" by C. P. L. Nichols and Samuel L. Friedman and much more.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California
Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. General overall wear. 42 pp., richly illustrated with articles: "Seeing California with Edward Weston: Death Valley" by Edward Weston (8 Weston photos) which was later collected with 20 other "Seeing California" articles in Westways into a 1939 book "Seeing California with Edward Weston"; "In and About the House" by Jack Courtney featuring the Edwards House designed by Gregory Ain and much on the California House and Garden Exhibition on Wilshire Blvd., "Tides West" monthly column by Care McWilliams, reviews of the latest automobiles and much more.
Published by The Automobile Club Of Southern California, Beverly Hills, 1931
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Two Page Color Supplement By Milard Sheets, Wood Block Portrait By Franz Geritz, Drawings By Maynard Dixon, Pictorial Map By Dillon Lauritzen, Drawings By Carl Oscar Borg, Annette Honeywell, Raymond P. Winters, Victor Mall, Vioola French (illustrator). 1st Edition. 50 Pp. Light Wear, Tiny Tear To Bottom Edge Of Spine.
Published by Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1933
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Stiff Illustrated Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Alvin Lustig (illustrator). First Edition. 4to. Pp. 42. Illustrated with black & white photos, drawings and paintings. Cover printed in red and black (front Lustig illustration) with the addition of blue on the rear cover, wrapped over side-staples: edges rubbed and crimped, spine chipped, mellowed crease down the center, leaves very moderately age toned, Table of Contents on p. 3 has Number 6 lined out and 5 hand written after Volume 25. The cover illustration was Alvin Lustig's first published work, submitted at age 18. Not only was his unsolicited illustration accepted by the artist-nurturing editor, Phil Townsend Hanna, but Lustig was hired as art editor beginning with the following issue. (Hanna enthusiastically announces the coming re-design in this number.) Referenced (and reproduced) on pp. 22 and 23 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig (Chronicle, 2010). (The high school graduate "had never been an art director or any other kind of director."). Rare on the open market. Now housed in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.