Ernest Dawson & Jake Zeitlin: Two Letters.
Pasadena: The Juniper Press, 1992. One of two hundred copies. Two tipped in photographs of Messrs. Dawson and Zeitlin. Prefatory note by printer Tyrus G. Harmsen. Ruled running-titles. A fine copy. White wrappers stitched at spine and stamped in red with “E D & J Z.” With original mailing envelope. 6 x 3 13/16 in. [8 unnumbered] pp. Item #17993
Letters between two of the most important antiquarian booksellers in Los Angeles history. Ernest Dawson (1882-1947) was the founder of Dawson's Book Shop, which has been in business since 1905. It is the oldest continuously running bookstore in Los Angeles.
Jacob Israel Zeitlin (1902-1987) was an American bookseller, poet, and intellectual central to the Los Angeles literary and book-trade scenes of the mid-twentieth century. Rhe so-called “Zeitlin Circle” was an influential force in Los Angeles’s artistic and cultural formation. Zeitlin championed the works of his contemporaries, Paul Landacre and Edward Weston.
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