Search Results: California - Southern from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Los Angeles: Man!, 1940. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 4.5x8 inches. Short essays by Melchior Seele, Ray Randall, Samuel Polinow, Edward Cunningham, Ammon A. Hennacy, Hippolyte Havel, M.B. Resin, Edna Larkin, Marcus Graham, and Richard Wagner.

Beverly Hills: Civic Research Press, 1954. Hardcover. xii, 230,[vii]p., very good condition in an edgeworn dust jacket.

Beverly Hills: Civic Research Press, 1954. Paperback. xii, 230p., xx, wraps, frontis., 5.5x8.25 inches, wraps lightly worn and toned, pages evenly toned, else good condition. Cover subtitle: "The story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times." Special unabridged edition.

Beverly Hills: Civic Research Press, 1954. Hardcover. xii, 230,[vii]p., previous owner's name else very good condition in an edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket.

San Pedro, CA: League for Economic Democracy, 1979. 15p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches; together with a worn and toned copy of Synthesis no. 7, and a cover letter from the issuing organization introducing the documents. Second edition, revised, outlining a community workshop approach to revolutionary organization.

Northridge, CA: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán; San Fernando Valley State, Northridge. Mexican-American Studies Dept, 1970. Newspaper. [8]p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, wraps chipped along fold, two rubberstamps on front wrap, else good condition. Multiple articles on police violence against latinos.

Westport: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1976. Hardcover. 151p., note, introduction, trial transcripts, very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth and unclipped dj showing some slight wear to edges. Memoir of a young man trapped in a Long Beach, California undercover police sting operation in a gay bar.

Milford, Ma: iMed Options, 2001. Paperback. 172p., very good first edition trade paperback in wraps. Sponsored by Nortwestern University Medical School's Ciomprehensive AIDS Center.

Los Angeles: Published by the authority of the Board of Directors of the Utopian Society, 1942. Pamphlet. 85p., wraps, very good condition, 4.5x6 inches, Includes a quote from Edward Bellamy on the title page; the Society claimed to follow Bellamy's ideas. " Sponsored by the Association of Liberal Freemasons, Los Angeles, California." Born out of the depression and the cultural milieu of Southern California, the Utopian Society was "a semi-secret society whose initiatory ceremonies embodied a series of dramatic performances epitomizing man's struggle for economic security and general well-being, tracing the progress of that struggle up thru past centuries and looking into the near future for the attainment of its goal." - p. 11.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist party Educational Department, 1938. Pamphlet. 18p., wraps chipped along the edges, back wrap has corner chipped, mimeographed, paper browned.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights, 1970. [36p.], staplebound pamphlet, cover mildly toned. Reproduced in the text is a letter from Coretta Scott King.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1903. 78p., 8.5x5.5 inches, numerous b&w pix plus a line map, in stapled self-wraps. Outer or cover wrap is missing, per pagination (item begins at p.3), ergo our "cover" is actually the titlepage.. also we see a minuscule paper-scrap under one of the external staples. Item not disfigured, just coverless and thus incomplete. Reading or research copy.

Claremont, CA: Padua Hills Theatre, 1958. 4p. 6x9 inches, program with a handbill for the play laid in, two lines crossed out, fold crease otherwise very good in tan pictorial wraps. The Community Theatre in Padua, founded in the late 1920s, almost by accident became the home of the Mexican American troupe that worked hard both to preserve aspects of their own culture while presenting it to wider audiences.

[Los Angeles]: Noice Press, 2002. Paperback. 110p., paperback, inscribed and numbered by Tan, very good. Numbered as 256 of 400. Tan is a gay Filipino American writer and activist who serves as the Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian American Experience in Seattle.

Pasadena: Munger Africana Library, 1975. 124p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, plates, catalog, cloth tape spine chipped otherwise very good in yellow pictorial wraps. Issue #29, March.

San Francisco: East/West Publishing Company, 1975. Hardcover. xiv, 304p., several b&w photos, very good first edition in dust jacket. Short stories and a novella by the San Diego-born Chinese American writer who taught in San Francisco prior to his death in 1964.

San Francisco: East/West Publishing Company, 1975. Hardcover. xiv, 304p., several b&w photos of and sketches by family members, first edition boards, lacks the dust jacket. Textblock has faint creasing to one signature, also some staining to margins of early leaves, and an ownership legend on the pastedown. Short stories and a novella by the San Diego-born Chinese American writer who taught in San Francisco prior to his death in 1964.

Los Angeles: One, Inc, 1976. Newsletter. Single 8.5 x 11 inch sheet, printed both sides monthly calendar of ONE, Inc.'s educational and social programs. ONE Inc., founded in 1952, was an early queer homophile organization that was an outgrowth of the Mattachine Society and published ONE magazine beginning in 1954.

South Pasadena: Southern California Laboratories of Stanford Research Institute, 1959. xiii, 188p., 8.5x11 inches, tables, maps, figures, spiral-bound wraps. The plastic comb spine is broken in places but holding, item quite edgeworn. Published in 1959 for the Orange County Board of Supervisors, it includes a projection for the economic growth in 1980.

New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Hardcover. 114p. hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket, inscribed by the author as a wedding gift. The Iranian immigrant author became a Presbyterian minister, residing in Pasadena.