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Bunker Hill, Los Angeles: Reminiscences of Bygone Days
by Politi, Leo
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Palm Desert, CA: Desert-Southwest, Inc, 1965. First edition. 4o, unpaginated. Illustrations by the author. Signed and inscribed by Politi to the former owner with a vignette watercolor and dated in 1964 at front. Gray cloth illustrated and lettered in gilt in illustrated jacket. A fine copy in near fine jacket with some soiling and smudging, mainly to edges.
Prose and reproductions of 27 of Politi's paintings comprise this love letter to the author's historic home neighborhood of Bunker Hill. A Beautifully inscribed copy, as per his usual.
Prose and reproductions of 27 of Politi's paintings comprise this love letter to the author's historic home neighborhood of Bunker Hill. A Beautifully inscribed copy, as per his usual.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5922
- Title
- Bunker Hill, Los Angeles: Reminiscences of Bygone Days
- Author
- Politi, Leo
- Format/Binding
- 4o, unpaginated. Illustrations by the author. Signed and inscribed by Politi to the former owner with a vignette watercolor and
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Desert-Southwest, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Palm Desert, CA
- Date Published
- 1965
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