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Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County

Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County

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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

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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'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
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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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For more than 65 years, we have specialized in rare and out of print books on the Western experience, satisfying a vast and varied clientele. Our focus is on early California and Los Angeles, represented by books, ephemera, paintings, and prints. Fine press, printing history, literature, gastronomy, aviation, railroads, and voyages are also available. Our store opened in downtown Los Angeles in 1954, and is now closed; but we are still available by phone, regular mail, and email. We issue occasional catalogs online.

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