Phénix

2004 · Best.-Nr. SP30-1222-13298 — Angel City Pr 2004. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2004 signed and inscribed first edition Angel City Press Santa Monica California 9 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches tall pale blue glossy hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket orange lettering to front cover and spine yellow endpapers copiously illustrated with brilliant color Kodachrome photographs 144 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Spine ever-so-slightly cocked. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author Charles Phoenix on the blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise a near fine copy - clean bright and unmarked - in a very good dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP30~ 2.5P Pop culture historian Charles Phoenix presents the colorful region as the locals saw it through the lens of their cameras in the 1940s 1950s and 1960s - more than 170 images printed from the best of Phoenix's collection of other people's old slides. He takes us into the living rooms and backyards of real people and travels with them uptown and downtown visiting the famous attractions along the way. He shows the lifestyle and landscape from Santa Barbara to San Diego from the desert to the sea filled with futurism escapism the unconventional and the hauntingly normal. Angel City Pr hardcover