The way it was
Subtitle: fifty years in the Southern California book trade
By: Louis Epstein ; interviewed by Joel Gardner, [1974].
Contributors: Gardner, Joel, interviewer.; University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program.
Publisher: Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [Los Angeles]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 659
Subjects: Epstein, Louis, 1901- ,; Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-; Pickwick Book Shop.; Dawson's Book Shop.; Gone with the wind (Motion picture); Booksellers and bookselling -- California, Southern -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Epstein recollects his life, bookseller friends, and the development of his stores, first in Long Beach, in the downtown Book Row of the twenties, and the landmark Pickwick Bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard.