Main St. to Malibu

  • Softcover
  • Santa Monica CA: Graphics Press, (c.1980)
By Basten, Fred E.
Santa Monica CA: Graphics Press. Very Good+. (c.1980). First Edition. Softcover. [moderate handling wear, tiny bit of scarring to upper corner of front cover, vertical crease near left edge of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "All-new photo treasury of celebrated scenes and memorabilia, Yesterday & Today," per the cover legend. Small-format paperback featuring approximately 100 photos taken in and around Santa Monica (most of them "historical" but a number also showing then-contemporary sites and scenes), and up the coast as far as Malibu. Nearly forty years on, even the "contemporary" photos will evoke nostalgia in some readers. .

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