Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward Ritchie, et al: A Bookman's View of Los Angeles

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Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward Ritchie, et al : A Bookman's View of Los Angeles

The Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, CA, 1961

Limited Edition, one of 500 copies. Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 6 1/2" x 10." 107 pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Printed on title page: "Published for members of the Grolier Club, by members of the Zamorano Club." Zamorano Club Roster in back. Pages are pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall but have offsetting, fading, and slight rubbing to front and back. Offsetting appears at the corners of the fore-edge on front cover and at the top of the back cover. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. A collection of essays by different authors. Contents are listed as follows: "Foreword" by Carl Schaefer Dentzel, "Profile of Los Angeles" by W. W. Robinson, "William Andrews Clark Memorial Library" by Lawrence Clark Powell, "The Honnold Library" by David W. Davies, "Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery" by Robert O. Schad, "The Southwest Museum Library" by Dentzel, "Fine Printing in Southern California" by Ward Ritchie, and "The Zamorano Club, 1927-1961" by Tyrus G. Harmsen." Back colophon: "Five hundred copies of A Bookman's View of Los Angeles published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press; Gordon Holmquist at the Cole-Homequist Press; Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Bound at the Silverlake Bindery, April, 1961.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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