Father Junipero Serra. Sketches of his Life in California by Ted DeGrazia with an Introduction and Observations by Carl S. Dentzel.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1969 First ediiton. Publisher's tan cloth boards with man on donkey illustration. Tan dust jacket with cover illustration and reproduced photograph on back. . Quarto. Reproductions of pen sketchesthroughout, ranging from full pages to small ones. Light foxing to dust jacket. Light foxing to fore-edge, clean throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by Ted DeGrazia, the author, dated April 23/77. Includes two book plates: one from Ward Ritchie and one from Lawrence Clark Powell. Inscribed by Powell to Ritchie 3/3/83. Ted DeGrazia (1909-1982) was an artist, primarily of painting and ceramics. The son of Southern Italian immigrants, DeGrazia was born in Arizona where he gained an appreciation for native cultures. His artwork was sponsored by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. At the end of his career, DeGrazia set 100 of his paintings ablaze to protest inheritance taxes on art. (Inventory #: 17829)