TARNISHED ANGELS: Paradisiacal Turpitude in Los Angeles Revealed
by Robinson, W. W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- As new
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
32 mo. (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches) Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, Printed for Members of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club September 1964. 26 pages of historical text [plus 16 pages printed on yellow paper purportedly reproducing, in facsimile, a "Souvenir Sporting Guide" (a guide to the prositutes and madames) for gentlemen visitors to the Fiesta de Los Angeles in 1897, illustrated with two vintage black and white half-tone photos, dust jacket.
Very good condition, title in gilt on hardcover cloth spine. Partial dedication reads: "Presented by Robert J. Woods, W. W. Robinson, Everett G. Hager, John H. Urabec and The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles."
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- Bookseller
- Caravan Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 749
- Title
- TARNISHED ANGELS
- Author
- Robinson, W. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, cloth boards
- Book Condition
- New As new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- California and the West; Los Angeles and Southern California; Fine Press; Promotional; Southern California; Southern California Tourist; Women; History;
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