BAWDY BALBOA
Brea, California: Sultana Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Before all the glitz and the glamour - before multimillion-dollar homes, two Mercedes in every garage, gold-plated yachts, high-rise office complexes, and plastic surgeons on every corner - there was Bawdy Balboa, Orange County's sin city, a rowdy town of dreamers and doers, as remembered by a longtime resident, Judge Robert Gardner, who observed it from cafe counter, breaking surf, and judicial bench in the roaring twenties and the not-so-roaring thirties." Square octavo: 149, [7] pp. with a frontispiece portrait. Full tan Iris cloth binding, with red, white, and blind stamping. A fine copy in the original patterned glassine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #80547
Price: $40.00