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Desert-Southwest Inc.. A beautiful crisp hardcover copy in good plus condition, light foxing to top edges of boards and light bumped corners. DJ in good condition with rubbing and tiny chips along edges, now in protective mylar cover. Signed by author. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1964.

Palm Desert, California: Desert-Southwest, 1964. Cloth. Very good/good. Unpaginated (approx. 62p.) Gift note on front endpaper, price clipped jacket has large chips and tears to edges. Politi's artwork of the fading Victorian mansions and the inhabitants of Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Politi received the 1950 Caldecott Award for Song of the Swallow. Color illustrations and b&w photographs. (12-1/2"x9-1/2")

Desert-Southwest Inc.. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, faint age toning to textblock. DJ in very good condition with mild rubbing and edgewear, now in protective mylar cover. Inscribed with intricate watercolor flower drawing by author dated 1964. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1964.

Desert-Southwest, Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Second Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial grey boards tight and straight, corners sharp and inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is price-clipped, small edgechips, small closed tear to bottom rear cover. Light soiling, rubbing to front cover. Pictorial endpapers, bright color illust. .

Los Angeles: Desert-Southwest, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with reproductions of 27 colorful paintings by the author, with two photographs. Second printing. Now classic collection of paintings and prose remembering Los Angeles in a quieter time. Born in Fresno, California in 1908, Politi (1908-96) spent his developmental years studying art at the Institute of Monza in Milan Italy. Returning to California in 1928, Politi settled near Olvera Street in Los Angeles and began writing and drawing in earnest, winning a Caldecott Award in 1949 for Song of the Swallows. Inscribed and dated, with original watercolor drawings and decorations, by Politi to Fred Krinsky, a rabbi who founded several congregations in Southern California and a former chairman of the Government Department at Pomona College: "to Professor Fred Krinsky, in appreciation, Trojan Guild and Leo Politi, 1967." Original gray cloth binding, with pictorial gilt stamping. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a bit of… Leer más

Palm Desert, CA: Desert-Southwest, Inc, 1965. First edition. 4o, unpaginated. Illustrations by the author. Signed and inscribed by Politi to the former owner with a vignette watercolor and dated in 1964 at front. Gray cloth illustrated and lettered in gilt in illustrated jacket. A fine copy in near fine jacket with some soiling and smudging, mainly to edges. Prose and reproductions of 27 of Politi's paintings comprise this love letter to the author's historic home neighborhood of Bunker Hill.  A Beautifully inscribed copy, as per his usual.

[Palm Desert: Desert Southwest Inc, 1964. First edition. Illustrated in Color. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated in Color. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed to Elizabeth Riley with floral watercolor "from Clyde Bulla and Leo Politi 1964