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Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. SIGNED by the Great L.A. Apologist to her fellow Angelenos, fine-press publishers Stathis Orphanos and Ralph Sylvester: 'Dearest Stathis & Ralph / I'm so happy someone wants my books who lives on Cheremoya, my first Hollywood street. / Love / Eve Babitz / XOXO [Heart].' xix, 296 pp. 12mo, black cloth, Fuschia and silver gilt stamped cover. Light bump to front cover at tail of spine, clean and square otherwise; DJ shows moderate rubbing but only minor loss to one corner, price of 7.95 intact. DJ photos by Annie Liebovitz. A nicer copy than the majority of the rugged few that survived the long out-of-print years when Babitz's cult status drove used copies into great scarcity. A spectacular association copy of Babitz's romping memoir and apologia for Hollywood against its cultured despisers. 'But if there had been someone, say, who wrote a book about New York, a nice, precise, short little novel in…

A memoir and fictional reflection on Los Angeles in the 1960s, capturing the culture and essence of the era.