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CITY OF QUARTZ Excavating the Future of Los Angeles ~ Mike Davis ~ SIGNED 1st hc

by Mike Davis

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First edition · Signed

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles by Mike Davis; with photographs by Robert Morrow Verso, 1990. Scarce hardcover first edition, first printing of Mike Davis's classic study of Los Angeles. SIGNED / INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Hardcover with light foxing to for edges else good +++ in dust jacket with some general light wear; rubbing to rear light foxing interior of jacket (see last photo) else good + fully intact (price still present front flap) ; 462 pages with map endpapers." No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, ..."

  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Year: 1990
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780860913030
  • Condition: Good

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