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La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, 1931
by Los Angeles, History
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About This Item
La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, Laurance L. Hill. Security-First National bank: Los Angeles, 1931. Measures 9" x 6" inches. 208 pages. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of Spanish settlement with dirt roads and a single street lamp. Black and white photographs of the city's early history including major figures throughout. Originally published to commemorate the fortieth anniverary of the founding of the former security trust and savings bank of Los Angeles in 1889. The text is a tribute to Los Angeles history and to the state of California, "How marvelous are nature's laws which work to serve us! The thick blanket of perpetual snows on the distant Sierras, the genial, melting sun, the brawling streams, which empty into placid lakes; the urge of gravity, forcing the life-giving fluid down man-made channels, across gorges, through gigantic tubes of steel, under range after range in rock-lined bores, whirling in passing the spindles of giant turbines! How the waters sink into the thirsty soil, gather in the filtering sands beneath, and are again lifted by the power they themselves have generated, to arrive at last under pressure for the manifold use of a waiting people!" Text block intact but detached from covers. Shelfwear to covers and spine partially separated from covers. Pages clean and bright. Overall good condition.
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- Title
- La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, 1931
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- Los Angeles, History
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For over 30 years, we have served a clientele of collectors, private institutions, universities, and public libraries in acquisition and collection development. We are members of ILAB, ABAA, and PADA, and have furnished collections around the world with rare and unique material; from the personal letters of literary greats to first edition Journals of Congress to unique pamphlets from the civil rights era. We strive to find archives and original early printed material that can fill gaps in existing institutional holdings; the kind of material that can bring new perspectives to the traditionally disregarded voices of indigiouneous peoples, women, and African-Americans.
We pride ourselves on the ability to track down the rarest and most interesting material for our client's collections. The partnerships we form with libraries, institutions, and personal collectors begin with a phone call or an email and last for decades. We offer an unconditional guarantee for each item's authenticity and completeness.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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