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Dates: during 1970-1970
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David Hicks on Bathrooms. 151 pages. World. $15. England's best-known decorator wants bathrooms majestic and unapologetic. To show the way, he offers a selection of stately 19th century baths with Egyptian, Greek Revival and rococo influences. For "character, luxury and style" in the 20th century, Hicks leans...
The Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its...
The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951 by Chester Gould. 291 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Despite 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his adult life, Dick Tracy manfully survived the two decades here recorded. Inevitably, though, the collection is a celebration of scurvy rogues and criminal...
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The Pulps, Fifty Years of American Pop Culture. Compiled and edited by Tony Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow...