Description

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror, 1942. Signed, First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Dust jacket fair condition.

An essential contribution to the literature of Los Angeles, blending history, memoir, comic anecdote, shameless boast, and sad reflection. The book was assembled from the memoires of Eugene Rafael Plummer (1852-1943), an original resident in the 1870s of what would become Hollywood. His recollections depict Los Angeles as a small, dusty, violent, and reckless dumping ground for adventurers who couldn’t make it in San Francisco – a place where nearly all its residents are dispossessed: the Native Americans by the Spaniards and Mexicans, the Mexicans by the Anglos, the half-Latino Anglos of the 1840s by the Yankees of the 1860s, and all the aforementioned by successive waves of Anglos. Includes a highly mythologized account of the founding of Los Angeles, as well as Plummer’s memoires of the outlaws Joaquin Murrieta and Tiburcio Vasquez. Octavo: [xii], 242 pp. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Light bumping to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is not price clipped (Price $2.50) yet shows wear along the outer edges and spine, and has ink stains on the front lower left corner. The dust jacket is still fully intact and is in fair condition.

The front hard cover does show some stained areas along the right side, yet this stain did not penetrate into the book. All pages of the book do not have water stains or other stains. All pages are securely bound with no torn or folded page corners.

The front is beautifully signed by Don Juan.

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