Vintage Literary Map of Los Angeles by Linda Ayriss, 1987

Name: Vintage Literary Map of Los Angeles by Linda Ayriss, 1987
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14366
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1987
Kind: Maps
Size: 51.6 × 67.3 cm (20.3 × 26.5 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Very good vintage condition. Originally issued folding, with the expected fold lines and some light handling and age-related wear. Colors remain attractive and vibrant. Please examine the photographs carefully for condition.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: California
Reference: BG-14366

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

"The Literary Map of Los Angeles", a pictorial map illustrated by Linda Ayriss with graphic design by Susan Lewis, published in Los Angeles by Aaron Blake Publishers in 1987. It is a color print, issued as a folding pocket map with an illustrated cover.

The city is drawn as a large blue swimming pool, with the principal streets and freeways forming the map on its surface and numbered white dots marking more than 120 places linked to 65 writers. Around the pool, an evening party in a Hollywood-style palm-fringed setting is peopled with portraits of authors, with their names lettered along the lower edge. They include William Saroyan, Henry Miller, S. J. Perelman, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Nathanael West, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, Raymond Chandler, Christopher Isherwood, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Mann.

A key across the bottom of the sheet lists the writers with the addresses and haunts tied to each, set in columns on a parchment-toned ground. The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and the Library of Congress both record the work.

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