[LOS ANGELES]. The Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral, 1950 Item #8158
232 pp; 4to; gilt stamped, leatherette backed cloth; pictorial dust jacket in fragments, laid in; black & white photographs; reproductions throughout. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Corral, [1951]. Limited to 400 copies. Title page illustration of desert prospectors viewing the distant mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb, and illustrated memoriam page for Ernie Sutton and Bruce Kiskaddon drawn by Clarence Ellsworth. Contributions include: Names on Cows by Don Perceval, with his illustrations; A Boy's Life on The Bell Ranch by Marion A. Speer; Los Angeles in the Roistering Fifties by W. W. Robinson; Western Express - a Study In Gold Rush Communications by Henry H. Clifford, etc., etc. Fine condition in poor jacket. |