Baby Cakes
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Softcover. Square 8vo., 220 pp. Later printing. San Francisco Apartment house human drama. Tales of the City.
California
Mary Ann in Autumn
New York: Harper Collins, 2010. Hardcover. 8vo., 408 pp.
More Tales of the City
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Softcover. Square 8vo. 246 pp. Second book in the acclaimed series. Originally published serially by the San Francisco Chronicle. Made into a TV miniseries. The first of nine novels about a group of friends in 1970s San Francisco, many of which are part of.....
Significant Others
New York: Harper & Row, Perennial Library, 1987. Softcover. Square 8vo., 274 pp. Buell, Carl Dennis Buell, illustrator. Fifth in the author's celebrated Tales of the City series.
Tales of the City
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Softcover. Square 8vo. 240 pp. Later printing. Trade paperback original in wraparound pictorial map covers with a key to locations of the story. CN654. Originally published serially by the San Francisco Chronicle. Made into a TV miniseries. The first of nine novels about a......
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
New York: Wiley, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo.336 pp. Overview of the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies.
The Docks
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo., 310 pp. illustrated. Bibliography, index. On the Port of Los Angeles, its workers, management, and critics.
Physique Pictorial Vol. 10, No. 2, August 1960
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1960. Softcover. 8vo., 32 pp. including covers, in staple-bound wraps. Artworks and photos by various artists. Includes two full-page calendar drawings by Etienne. Bob Mizer was the editor, publisher and primary photographer of the digest men's magazine. Mizer founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945.....
Physique Pictorial Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 1957
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957. Softcover. 8vo., 32 pp. including covers, in staple-bound wraps. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of artworks and photos by various artists. Mizer founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945 Los Angeles as a modeling agency for male bodybuilders. Mizer, a self-taught photographer.....
Physique Pictorial Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 1957
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957. Softcover. 8vo., 32 pp. including covers in stapled illustrated wraps. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of artworks and photos by various artists, three pages of Tom of Finland. Early publication of Tom of Finland, with three inner pages. He made his first appearance.....
Physique Pictorial Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1958
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958. Softcover. 8vo., 30 pp. in stapled wraps. Iconic Physique pictorial cover Stephen Wengryn posing as an Indian for the Spring 1958 issue of Bob Mizer's beefcake magazine, published by his Athletic Model Guild. Artwork by Tom of Finland, Art-Bob, and Spartacus. Film stills from.....
Physique Pictorial Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1958
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1958. Softcover. 8vo., 32 pp. including covers, in staple-bound wraps. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of artworks and photos by various artists. Contains stills from AMG films like Aladdin, Kismet and Street Fight. Bob Mizer was the editor, publisher and primary photographer of the.....
Physique Pictorial Vol. XXIX, March 1977
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1977. Softcover. 8vo., 32 pp. including covers in stapled wrappers. illustrated with black and white reproductions of artworks and photos by various artists. Bob Mizer was the editor, publisher and primary photographer of the digest men's magazine. Mizer founded the Athletic Model Guild in 1945.....
A Fire Story
New York: Abrams Comic Art, 2019. Hardcover. Square 8vo., 153 pp. First printing. Graphic memoir novel about the 2019 Northern California wildfires that resulted in 44 fatalities, 6,200 destroyed homes and 8,900 destroyed structures. Fies's firsthand account of this event, based on his personal experiences, was hastily pulled together and.....
California Wine Cookery and Drinks: 88 Easy Recipes for Delicious Foods and Wine Drinks
San Francisco: California Wine Advisory Board, 1967. Softcover. Small 8vo., 24 pp. including covers.
Wine Cookery the Easy Way: Using California Wines and the Convenience Foods
San Francisco: California Wine Advisory Board, 1965. Softcover. 16mo., 22 pp. including covers. Illustrated.
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2011. Softcover. 8vo. 246 pp. Later printing. After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and a book of that name in 1969. More Notes... gathers uncollected articles from.....
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2011. Softcover. 8vo. 204 pp. Later printing. After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and a book of that name in 1969. This is the City Lights reprint.....
Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays Volume 2: 1946-1992
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. Softcover. 8vo. 275 pp. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Pictorial card wrappers. The second volume of Bukowski's uncollected stories and essays, edited and with an introduction by David Stephen Calonne.
Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
Northvale: Sun Dog, 2003. Softcover. 8vo. 288 pp. First edition. Trade paperback.
Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Hardcover. 8vo. 276 pp. Critical assessment of the City of Angels, including gridlocked freeways, immigrant neighborhoods, Beverly Hills, popular culture, health consciousness, and more, and speculates on the city's future.
Point Reyes National Seashore: A Hiking and Nature Guide
San Anselmo: Martin Press, 1977. Softcover. 8vo., 126 pp. Illustrations, maps.
The Lost Coast: Stories from the Surf
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo., 224 pp.
Sunset Barbecue Book: How to Build Them How to Use Them
San Francisco: Lane, 1945. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 96 pp. . The first half of the book contains building plans for a variety of classic 1940s California-Mexican style outdoor, sheltered, and indoor brick barbecues, ovens, and fireplaces, all quite exceptional and well thought-out. The second half is a collection of Sunset's.....
Pictorial Map of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Showing the Location of Internment Sections, Buildings and Art Treasures and The Little Churches of Forest Lawn: The Little Church of the Flowers, The Wee Kirk O' the Heather
Glendale: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1937-1938. Softcover. Single sheet map measuring 20 1/2" x 26 3/4" folded into eight [8] panels. Shows buildings and works of art pictorially, includes descriptive index and illustrations and explanatory text and illustrations on verso. Scarce item. **OCLC** lists one holding at the University of.....