Angel City Press
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles–earth, water, air and fire–exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness.
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- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162640142X
- Language: English
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Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartA visual history of Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles, from gardeners’ trucks and family sedans to hot rods and race cars.
Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles explo
- Author: Wang, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401357
- Language: English
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Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove
$50.00 Add to cartA highly visual monograph of plans and concept drawings from the Armet Davis Newlove firm, the creator of what became known as “Googie Modern.”
In Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis N
- Author: Murphy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1626401098
- Language: English
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Art Deco Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartArt Deco Los Angles is a stunning photographic tour through one of the most glamourous architectural eras of the City of Angels. From the iconic Hollywood Bowl, where the world’s biggest acts dazzle u
- Author: Landau, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 162640139X
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950
$45.00 Add to cartDiscover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.
Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era
- Author: Hylen, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401330
- Language: English
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Bar Keeps: A Collection of California Cocktail Napkins
$30.00 Read moreBar Keeps: A Collection of California’s Best Cocktail Napkins highlights the colorful and fun cocktail napkins from California’s famous restaurants, hidden dives, and most beloved bars.
2022 SILVER Win
- Author: Quinn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1626400970
- Language: English
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Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartAs Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing will inevitably shift toward a greater emphasis on apartments and other types of multi-family housing. And
- Author: Anderton, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1626400911
- Language: English
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L.A. Painter: The City I Know / The City I See
$40.00 Read moreL.A. Painter is an autobiographical exploration of works by Karla Klarin, one of the best-known female artists in Los Angeles. Her abstract work and ten essays are focused on America’s most famous met
- Author: Klarin, Karla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1626401136
- Language: English
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset S
$40.00 Add to cartThe Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Buffalo Springfield called it right: “There’s something happening here…what it is ain’t exactly clear.” What was happening then is now absolutely clear. Rock ‘n’ roll a
- Author: Landau, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1626400326
- Language: English
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A Country Called California: Photographs 1850-1960
$50.00 Read moreA book of fine-art photography featuring the visual history of California.
2022 BRONZE Winner for Photography, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
A Country Called California traces the development
- Author: White, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1626401055
- Language: English
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Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900-1930
$50.00 Read moreThe first book to tell the early history of cars in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles’s car culture has shaped the nation’s preferences in transportation, architecture, leisure, and even dining. The story of th
- Author: Holter, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1626401233
- Language: English
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New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora
$45.00 Read moreFifty years of the Vietnamese Diaspora as seen through the New Wave movement, showing how young Vietnamese refugees in Orange County found rebellion and reinvention through music, fashion, and communi
- Author: Ai, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1626401373
- Language: English
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Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling
$40.00 Add to cartA fun, visual book exploring the art, architecture and style of America’s mid-century obsession: Bowling!
Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling takes aim at the obsession that swept the po
- Author: Nichols, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1626401314
- Language: English
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Also on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles
$45.00 Add to cartAlso on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles shines a light on an incredible wealth of stories that lie just beyond the well-beaten path.
“For those who love to wander through the
- Author: Lerew, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1626401195
- Language: English
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Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
$30.00 Add to cartBest-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400792
- Language: English
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Kaos Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
$40.00 Add to cartA brilliant, multi-media work about artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell.
“Caldwell’s restlessness of spirit is mimicked in the book’s elaborate, frenetic design. It is one of the mo
- Author: Frazier, Robeson Taj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1626401179
- Language: English
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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
$30.00 Add to cartA Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia
- Author: George, Lynell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400636
- Language: English
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Hollywood Signs: Glittering Graphics and Glowing Neon in Mid-Century Tinseltown
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the glitz and glamour of Hollywood through a tour of its most fabulous mid-century neon signs!
Take in the glitz, glamour, and graphics of vintage Hollywood with Hollywood Signs: Glittering Gr
- Author: Kikkert, Kathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 162640125X
- Language: English
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Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
$50.00 Add to cartKen Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and how other c
- Author: Bernstein, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 162640075X
- Language: English
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Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir
$40.00 Add to cartBunker Hill is the highest point of downtown Los Angeles, both literally and figuratively. Its circle of life has created a continuous saga of change, each chapter rich with captivating characters, st
- Author: Marsak, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400679
- Language: English
