Saint Vibiana’s : Los Angeles cathedral 1876 – 1950. By … Photographs by Arnold Gustav Hylen.
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1950. One of fifty copies. OCLC records 10 copies held in libraries. Three tipped-in silver gelatin prints, including frontispiece. Title-page and colophon printed in red and black. Printed by Will Cheney. Bound by Margot Archer. Some fading and tearing to spine. Mild toning and rubbing to outer edges of boards. Back hinge cracked but sound. A good copy. Quarter black cloth and decorative patterned paper boards. Quarto. 6 x 9 .". [2], 3-11 pp. Item #18045
A history of the eponymous Catholic cathedral (once the official cathedral of the Los Angeles see), which opened in Los Angeles in 1876, and which contains the remains of an obscure saint. “Here is enclosed the body of the patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The young girl, a virgin, who refused to abandon her faith and submit to the will of her pagan persecutor, and who by her death by violence won the crown of glorious martyrdom, is lovingly remembered here, and by the inscription carved above the main entrance to the Cathedral which reads: SUB INVOCATIONE SANCTÆ VIBIANÆ, VIRGINIS ET MARTYRIS.”.
Thomas Atwill Neal (1907-1983) began working at Dawson’s bookshop in the 1930s. He authored several works of crime fiction, and produced some miniature books beginning in the 1960s.
Price: $150.00