L.A. History:  Los Angeles 1935 INSCRIBED by Harry Carr & E.H. Suydam

Los Angeles: City of Dreams by Harry Carr, with illustrations by E.H. Suydam. Published by D. Appleton-Century Co. in 1935. 403 pages.

This copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by both author and illustrator on the blank page before the half-title: "For / William Garnet Chandler / Sincerely / Harry Carr / E.H. Suydam.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. The book is in very nice condition. There are no bookplates, library markings, or stray marks. There are slight rips at the top and bottom of the spine as shown.

A terrific gift for your favorite Angeleno, or anyone else who enjoys and appreciates Los Angeles history.

Harry C. Carr (1877–1936) was an American reporter, editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. In 1934 he was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. Carr became famous for his eyewitness coverage of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. He was the first outside reporter to make his way to the shattered city and his efforts resulted in "four or five full newspaper pages of print, the longest story I ever saw in a paper," said an assistant city editor at the time.

His coverage, reporting and writing was "one of the greatest stories of modern times, one that is still regarded by newspapermen all over the world as a model for the chronicling of some tremendous and awful event," a colleague recalled thirty years later. Carr subsequently covered the Mexican revolution, the 1932 Olympics, Japan's invasion of China and Korea in 1933-1934. His column, "The Lancer," began on November 18, 1924 and appeared almost daily until his death.

Edward Howard Suydam (1885-1940) was a well-known graphic artist, painter and illustrator.  He was a full member of the Philadelphia Print Club, the Philadelphia Society of Applied Arts and the Philadelphia Alliance. Frequently commissioned as a commercial artist, he produced many illustrations for Harper's, Designer and The Delineator.  Suydam also illustrated a series of historical volumes about U.S. cities, including Los Angeles: City of Dreams.

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