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(no author) Commemorative Book: St. Petka Serbian Orthodox Church, San Marcos, California
San Marcos CA (Unknown) 1991 NO First Edition Softcover Very Good+
[nice clean copy, mild edgewear, some rubbing to covers]. (B&W/color photographs) 276-page book celebrating the Consecration of this Serbian Orthodox Church, with many photographs and advertisements. Much of the book is not in English (looks like Russian to my eyes), but there are some English-language sections devoted to the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and to the history of Serbia itself. (Most of the photo captions are not in English.)
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35.00 USD
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(no author) Madame Tussaud's Exhibition Official Guide & Catalogue; revised and brought up-to-date October, 1929 [date on cover: 1930]
London (Madame Tussaud's) 1930 Stapled wraps Very Good+
[quite a decent copy, staples a bit rusty but covers and all pages firmly affixed, minor soiling to covers, internally very clean]. (photographs, ads) Guidebook to London's famous wax museum, including "An Outline of the History of Madame Tussaud's." Contains brief biographical descriptions of the several hundred historical and cultural personages depicted, and full-page photographs of the figures of: H.M. King George V; H.R.H. The Prince of Wales; H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth; The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Davidson of Lambeth; The Royal Victims of the French Revolution (including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette); King Edward I of England; The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. A loose leaf is inserted advertising an "Important New Tableau: Neanderthal Men," and affixed to page 57 is a small printed note announcing that "The Children's Pets have been withdrawn, and The Japanese Garden is closed during alterations" (this unfortunately obscures the descriptions of about half-a-dozen of the Children's Pets). There is an alphabetical index to all the figures, and a separate index to those in the Chamber of Horrors.
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35.00 USD
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(no author) Race Relations in the USA 1954-1968 (Keesing's Research Report 4)
New York Charles Scribner's Sons (c.1970) NO First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dj Illustrated by (dj design) Mike McIver
(price-clipped) [some spotting/soiling to page edges (mostly on top edge), light shelfwear; jacket shows a bit of surface- and edge-wear, slightly scrunched at base of spine]. "Here, in one complete volume, is a report tracing the development of the civil rights movement from the landmark court decision [Brown v. Board of Education] to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 and the subsequent conviction of his assassin. Presented chronologically, the report also records the government's endeavors to ensure increasing equality of status for the Negro -- from gradual enforcement of integration in education through the successive Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The growing racial violence and urban riots that threaten American society are described factually, and official reports analyzing the causes of such disorders and recommending remedies are quoted extensively."
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8.00 USD
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The Author of 'No Bed of Roses' [and] 'God Have Mercy on Me! [Marjorie Erskine Smith] With My Eyes Wide Open: The Story of Another Lost Soul
New York Sheridan House (c.1949) NO First Edition Hardcover Good
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, bumped at all corners, heavily rubbed at edges, etc; binding intact and text clean, an acceptable reading/research copy]. Follow-up to the sensational "lost soul" books, "No Bed of Roses" (1930) and "God Have Mercy on Me!" (1931), both of which were written by one-time N.Y. Evening Graphic reporter Marjorie Smith, purportedly based on the "discovered" diaries of one "O.W.," a prositute and drug addict. Nearly twenty years later, Ms. Smith made another fortuitous "discovery," i.e. that "O.W." had had a daughter, given up for adoption in infancy. Ignorant of her origins, the girl, "Linda Lou Maxwell," is raised by a couple of respectable folks, and seems on track to avoid her mother's life of degradation -- until, in rapid succession: (a) her adoptive mother dies suddenly; (b) her father remarries, to an Evil Stepmother type, who (c) gives her a gift -- a copy of "No Bed of Roses"! -- and helpfully informs her that "your mother was the whore that wrote that book." Nice. So the next thing you know Linda (now obsessed about her "bad blood") runs away from home, goes to New York, and proceeds to be hit on by every man in sight. I think you can see where this is going.
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12.00 USD
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