The Garden of Allah: The story of a crazy uninhibited hotel where the hotel is the star and the supporting players are the famous guests

Book Description

New York: Crown Publishers, 1970. Second Printing Before Publication.. Hardcover. Minimal shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, light chipping at head, heel and tips, toning at spine and edges, several small, closed tears, else bright and clean. Green cloth boards, purple metallic ink lettering. 8vo. 258pp. Illus. (b/w plates). The Garden of Allah in Hollywood was a prison and a playground, a sanctuary and glorified whorehouse, where the greats of Hollywood's golden years could carry on their private lives unobserved by the public eye...[Among] its notable guests were Somerset Magham, Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Hepburn, Rachmaninoff, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall." (from flap)

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