Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Artist's facsimile of Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay's La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne (1913). The poem, by Cendrars, describes a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, is printed alongside an abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay.
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Visual Materials
Image of Siberian man inside, or next to, a native home with his Alaskan wife and step children.
photCL 131 (118)
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Two Russian revolutionaries conspire to kidnap a Russian intelligence official while aboard the Peterson-Cannes Express.
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ESTC R26479 ; R.W. = Robert Wild ; Verse - "Plot on, proud Rome! and lay thy damn'd design" ; Variant: title has "to express his zeal to maintain .."
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"British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a belligerent Austrian taxi driver to disrobe, and then forced at gunpoint to hike barefoot over the Alps, Hambledon ruefully decided that his vacation was over. With the help of a horse-faced English tourist - and over the opposition of some escaped lunatics, an enormously stout gentleman with a feather in his hat, a village idiot, and a Communist named Medeski - Tommy Hambledon unravels this gripping and intrigue-ridden international mystery"--Jacket.
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Manuscripts
8 items: news stories--both LAT and Herald Express copies--on issues related to the Herald Express, such as price increases, strikes, clashes with public officials, etc., over the time frame indicated. Also a couple of "history" columns from 1944 and 1945 - "Early Days in Los Angeles."
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