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HUNTER, Wally. Los Angeles Negro Business Directory. Los Angeles: 1953. 8vo (6 x 9.25 in.). Original wrappers (gift inscription to cover, pencil inscriptions on prelims, otherwise clean and with minor shelf wear and toning). Features Anita Bogan (1900-2007) on the cover, a pioneering African American woman. She is credited in the directory as having owned and operated LA’s only drive-in liquor store and operating a special transportation service for railroad employees, being the only licensed woman in the city. The biography alludes to her passion for floral art; her 2007 obituary in the Los Angeles Times recounts “for their events, African American celebrities all ‘went to the black florist, and she was pretty much it during that time, the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s in L.A.,’ said Dee Dee Kennedy Brown, Bogan’s cousin. ‘She had pictures with Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Johnny Mathis, you name it.’” Very scarce. Condition: Gift inscription to cover, pencil inscriptions on prelims, otherwise clean and with minor shelf wear and toning. Fine.