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227pp. 12mo, Navy paper over boards stamped in black and backed in black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some trivial offsetting to endpapers beyond the flaps and very faint foxing to top edge, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise in like DJ. SIGNED and inscribed by Eve Babitz to fellow Angelenos, the fine press publishing duo Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos: 'Dear Stathis & Ralph / We are the ones who'll never give up living in Hollywood forever. / Love Eve Babitz / [heart / heart] / XOXO.' In other books inscribed to Stathis and Ralph, Babitz takes delight in their residence on the street of her Hollywood birth, Cheremoya. A lovely copy of Babitz's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale of "a rare enough thing-a native-born Angeleno grown up at the edge of America with her feet in the ocean and her head in the breaking waves.".

A novel that explores the life of a young woman in California as she navigates the turbulent waters of career, love, and self-discovery.