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
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Caravan Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 736
- Title
- Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County
- Author
- HOWELL, Wm. E
- Format/Binding
- Quarter cloth, rebacked, with title in gilt on spine; contemporary original orange paper, covered with old printed advertisement
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Original Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- California and the West; Western American History; Americana; Old and Rare; Los Angeles and Southern California; Southern California; Southern California Business; Early Southern California Directory; City Planning;
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- Gilt
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