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Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Somer ubbing & edgewear; overall clean & tight. Fraser, Simon; Caldwell, Gary (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, slight exposure of boards at lower tips, a little age-browning around edges of boards, some puckering of cloth along rear binding]. (pen & ink portrait drawings) SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of brief profiles of notables, by this long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and sometime novelist; described on the title page as the second in a proposed series of four books "which will form a sort of Who's Who of Southern California's more famous residents." The subjects are: Carrie Jacobs Bond; Lawrence Tibbett; Zane Grey; Gloria Swanson; Ramon Novarro; Frederick Russell Burnham; Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Montague Glass; Ellen Beach Yaw; Hamlin Garland; Ruth Chatterton; Frank Hamilton Spearman; Cecil B. DeMille; Kathryn Leighton; David Wark Griffith; Frederick Warde; Jesse L. Lasky; Irene Rich; Ronald Colman; Ralph Waldo Trine; Bessie Love; James W. Foley; and John Steven McGroarty. The profiles are almost all a uniform three pages in length, with the one-page "interspersions" being examples of Shippey's poetry. Signed by Author. Illustrated by A.L. Ewing (illustratore).…