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Garden of Allah ,SIGNED By Sheilah Graham, in Pictorial Dustjacket, with Short Newspaper Article Midnight in , story of Hollywood's most exotic playground & crazy & Uninhibited HOTEL BUILT IN 1920’s records events in one of the strangest and most revealing books ever written about the phenomenon that was Hollywood.
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, HBDJ, 1970, 1ST EDITION, SECOND Printing STATED. NEARFINE+/NF+, SIGNED & Inscribed, . NOT an Ex-Library copy. Tight, square binding. Hinges solid. NO underlining, notes, hilighting or bookplate. Illustrated B/W Fotos,The unclipped dust jacket, now protected by a removeable Brodart mylar cover, Pages bright & clean. Bright Green cloth Titled in blue Gilt on Spine CVR, 258 pgs, INDEX, LIGHT Rub & Wear , DJ Spine Sunned , Guests include ALLA NAZIMOVA, Dorothy Parker, Errol Flynn, Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Harlow, Rudolph Valentino, ETC inside story of a playground, and a hideaway for Hollywood elite in the golden era. This was dreamt, and brought to reality by the 1920s screen goddess, Alla Nazimova. observes that in its 32 years of its existence, the Garden witnessed despair, drunkenness, marriages & divorces, sex & orgies, fights, suicides, robberies and murders. Well known nightclubs such as; Mocambo, Ciro's, Trocadero, and of course the Schwab's Drugstore were very close to the Garden. Schwab's was handy for celebs; Arthur Miller use to stop by late nights for sleeping medications for Marilyn Monroe, 25 bungalows built around a swimming pool followed very little traditional rules. The party started at night and go into wee hours, and sometimes much later. Barrymore had a valet carry his portable bar, Tallulah Bankhead use to whiz by the pool fully naked and announcing to the cr
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- Garden of Allah ,SIGNED By Sheilah Graham, in Pictorial Dustjacket, with Short Newspaper Article Midnight in , story of Hollywood's most exotic playground & crazy & Uninhibited HOTEL BUILT IN 1920’s records events in one of the strangest and most revealing books ever written about the phenomenon that was Hollywood.
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- Sheilah Graham, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ,well respected newspaper columnist, also a resident at the Sanctuary, FORMER OWNER STAMP ON BLANK BACK ENDPAPER, Inner DJ Flap $5.95, Illustrated B/W Fotos,
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