Los Angeles: A Bicentennial Salute

Title: Los Angeles: A Bicentennial Salute

Author: Lummis, Charles Fletcher and Francis J. Weber

Publication: San Buenaventura, California: Junipero Serra Press, 1981.

Description: Miniature book containing an excerpt of an essay about Los Angeles by Charles Fletcher Lummis, which previously appeared in "Out West" magazine in 1909. With a preface by Msgr. Francis J. Weber and signed by him. One of 500 copies designed by Francis Braun and printed by the Junipero Serra Press to commemorate the bicentennial of Los Angeles' founding. With the seal of Los Angeles in red on the title page and initials in red. Bound in full olive calfskin over boards, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. 3 x 2.125 inches; [4], 21, [7] pages (last three leaves blank). Mild wear and slight indentations to the binding, with small ghost pencil markings on the front free endpaper, else clean and crisp. A Very Good+, signed copy.