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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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. 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 ,Second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1970, 1ST EDITION, SECOND Printing STATED. NEARFINE+/NF+, SIGNED & Inscribed, . NOT an Ex-Library copy.Illustrated B/W Fotos, Tight, square binding. Hinges solid. NO underlining, notes, hilighting or bookplate. 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 crowd about her nudity; the fist fight betwe. Signed by Author(s).