first edition Wraps
1960 · Berkeley, California
by Walls, Jim
Berkeley, California: Howell-North, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. “San Francisco’s Chinatown is the largest Oriental City in the Western Hemisphere,” according to this booklet, aimed at encouraging tourism and shedding the neighborhood's negative history: “The fabled opium dens have vanished, and the sound of moon viols no longer issues from the haunts of slaves girls.” Booklet: 60, [4] pp. with numerous black-and-white photographs by Phil Palmer and a map. Bound with staples in the original pictorial paper wrappers. Near fine. (Inventory #: 78045)