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tucson: signature design associates, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good clean solid copy jacket with quite a bit of edge tearing and chipping.

Tucson: Signature Design Associates, [1988]., 1988. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Bright red cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, [8], 129 pp., frontispiece [portrait], illustrated from photographs, portraits. Soleng Tom (1912-2000) was born March 11, 1912, in Canton, China, to a merchant hotel family. He moved to the United States in the late 1920s, working in the San Francisco area unloading produce on the docks and at other jobs. He moved to Tucson in 1928 to join an uncle, who operated a laundry here. He rose to become a leading city businessman, owning many companies including Tom Wing Market and Soleng Supermarket. He served 16 years – 1964-80 – on the Tucson Unified School District board, as president four times and clerk three times. His TUSD philosophy matched his personal philosophy – the "bootstrap" system of working to further oneself. Soleng opened Tucson's first shopping center in south… Read More

Tucson.: Signature Design Assoc., 1988.. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.