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Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County
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Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County: Containing the Name, Subdivision, Location, Number of Lots, Boundaries, Book and Page of Entry in Recorder's Office, Distance from Los Angeles City Plaza, and Best Manner of Reaching all Tracts in Los Angeles County

by HOWELL, Wm. E.

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Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches) Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1888. 278 pages listing 1700 tracts alphabetically. Rebacked quarter cloth with title in gilt on spine, contemporary original orange printed paper over boards, with old printed advertisements for local businesses framing the title and author, centered, on the upper cover; other ads on back cover, and among the text.

Very good condition (oval stamp of "Howell and Palm Publishers" on South Spring Street in upper right corner of title page, not affecting contents, penciled name of previous owner and date 1935 at top of title page).

A very rare record of real estate holdings and development in a burgeoning California town.
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A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PARADISE (In the Suburbs of Los Angeles)
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A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PARADISE (In the Suburbs of Los Angeles): Being A Historic and Descriptive Account of Pasadena, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, and La Canada; With Important Reference to Los Angeles and All Southern California, and Containing Map and Illustrations.

by {FIRST SEPARATE DIRECTORY OF PASADENA} Farnsworth, R. W. C. (Edited and Published By)

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Original First Edition printed by the well known Pacific Press,
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Small Quarto (10 x 7 inches) Pasadena, California, R. W. C. Farnsworth, 1883 [1]-vi, [7]-132 pages with engraved and half-tone photo illustrations, map of Pasadena in text.

"First separate directory of Pasadena; first history of the area in particular, and one of the best promotional works of its time for the Los Angeles region." - Quebedeaux: "Prime Sources of California and Nevada Local History."

Contributors include Dr. J. P. Widney, Abbot Kinney, and John Muir among other notable early Southern California personalities.

Original green cloth boards (one of several colored cloth covers known to be used for this book, blue and red being most common). Decorative gilt embossed title centered on front cover, repeated in blind on the back cover, with "Pasadena," "San Gabriel," "La Cañada," and "Sierra Madre" printed on individual decorative gilt backgrounds diagonally in the corners of the front cover.

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