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The Moon is not the Son : a close look at the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church / by James Bjornstad. (OCLC #2985407)

RDA A.17.1 on Capitalization of Deities says to “capitalize the name of a deity and any term referring to the Christian Trinity”, and includes as examples:

Son of God
Son of Man

That seems to be the “Son” referenced in this book’s title, so it is capitalized there.

Moon in the title refers to Sun Myung Moon (Unification Church members are pejoratively called “Moonies”, referring to his name), so this word is capitalized as well (following RDA A.11).

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Quimbois, magie noire et sorcellerie aux Antilles : avec 61 pantacles et sceaux magiques / Ary Ebroïn. (OCLC #3514396)

RDA 8.5.4 on Accents and Other Diacritical Marks in names says to record them as they appear on the source of information, like: 

100 1_ ǂa Ebroïn, Ary.

In OCLC Connexion, you can type characters with diacritics by typing the unaccented character, and then adding the diacritic with Edit -> Enter diacritics… (Ctrl-E). Pasting in pre-composed characters from another source will produce an error about data needing to be ALA characters.

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Expressive quilts / Kumiko Sudo ; [illustrations by Michiko Sanford ; photography by Roland Hanselmann]. (OCLC #21077233)

The hybrid AACR2/RDA record for this piece has physical description:

300 __ ǂa 96 pages : ǂb chiefly color illustrations ; ǂc 28 cm

The physical details recorded in ǂb suggest that the volume is primarily made up of color illustrations; this is different from “illustrations (chiefly color)”, indicating that the illustrations (which are secondary) are mostly in color (described in RDA 7.17.1.3 on Recording Color Content).

I did not find an RDA rule for recording that a volume is “chiefly illustrations” (that would be similar to AACR2 2.5C5); this may be because it can be more precisely recorded in the Content Type:

300 __ ǂa 96 pages : ǂb color ; ǂc 28 cm
336 __ ǂa still image ǂb sti ǂ2 rdacontent
336 __ ǂa text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent

(including that second one depending on how much text is in there among the image content, which is primary.)

I notice that even for books that are “all illustrations”, records tend to still include the word “illustrations” in 300ǂb. (What do you think – should it be there?)

Many catalogers also include a note like:

500 __ ǂa Chiefly illustrations.
500 __ ǂa All illustrations.
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The tarot : its occult signification, use in fortune-telling, and method of play, etc. / by S.L. MacGregor Mathers. (OCLC #4237056)

Some authors are most often published using initials for their first or middle names. While it is important to retain this form in the authorized access point, its brevity can cause more collisions (multiple authors having the same authorized form). For this reason, a fuller form (with the abbreviated name spelled out) may also be included in the authorized access point, like:

100 1_ ǂa Mathers, S. L. MacGregor ǂq (Samuel Liddell MacGregor),
  ǂd 1854-1918.

In a MARC authority record, the fuller form is also recorded in 378:

378 __ ǂq Samuel Liddell MacGregor
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To authorize the secretary of the Navy to construct a T tunnel as a means of communication and transportation between San Pedro, Wilmington, Long Beach and Terminal Island, Calif. (H.R. 5006). Mr. King (OCLC #904614435)

The character that appears before the word “tunnel” in this title is not a letter T in the same font, but is more like a ⊤ shape (sometimes called a “tee” or “down tack”).

The LC-PCC PS for RDA 1.7.5 on Symbols says to use existing characters when this can be done without serious distortion or loss of intelligibility, so I transcribed this in the title proper just using a capital T:

245 10 ǂa To authorize the secretary of the Navy to construct
    a T tunnel as a means of communication and transportation between
    San Pedro, Wilmington, Long Beach and Terminal Island, Calif.
    (H.R. 5006). Mr. King.
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The correspondence of Washington Allston / Nathalia Wright, editor. (OCLC #897474403)

RDA 6.2.2.10.2 on Complete Works in a Single Form says to record a conventional collective title as the preferred title for a compilation of works that consists of, or purports to be, the complete works of a person in one particular form (such as their correspondence). In MARC, this is recorded in the 240:

100 1_ ǂa Allston, Washington, ǂd 1779-1843.
240 10 ǂa Correspondence

The title of the particular manifestation is also recorded, in the 245:

245 14 ǂa The correspondence of Washington Allston /
  ǂc Nathalia Wright, editor.
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Statistics of the presidential and congressional election of … / compiled from official sources … under direction of … clerk of the House of Representatives. (OCLC #11573029)

RDA 2.14.1.3 on recording Frequency (310 in MARC) gives a list of terms which includes “annual”, “biennial”, and “triennial” but has no term matching this serial’s frequency (once every four years). RDA says in that case (when none of the terms is appropriate or sufficiently specific) to record the details in a Note on frequency, which is also recorded in a 310:

310 __ ǂa Quadrennial
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The ballad book of John Jacob Niles / with a new introduction by Ron Pen ; decorations by William Barss. (OCLC #904561492)

RDA 3.4.1.7.5 on recording extent of online resources says that when the online resource has a print counterpart, its extent should also be specified. This resource is a digized score, so we look at (RDA 3.4.1.7.5) which covers extent of scores. The print score has extent:

1 score (xxvi, 370 pages)

so the online version has extent:

1 online resource (1 score (xxvi, 370 pages))
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La dama del Pleistoceno : muerte en Rancho La Brea / Rubén Benítez. (OCLC #904552759)

This book is not marked with any publication information, only the date and location of manufacture. The Amazon.com page for this title gives the Publisher’s Name as “CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform”, so I recorded this in the publication statement:

264 _1 ǂa [United States?] : ǂb [CreateSpace Independent
    Publishing Platform], ǂc [2015]

Since I found the information outside of the resource itself, I surrounded it with square brackets, as described in RDA 2.2.4.

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The techniques of astral projection : dénouement after fifty years. (OCLC #7303468)

OCLC has records using many standards; not just RDA and AACR2 but also some non-ISBD. For example, this record has fixed field Desc indicating that it is non-ISBD:

Desc: _

and indeed, some fields have no (or little) punctuation as markup:

300 __ ǂa xxiii, 111 pages ǂc 22 cm

but some elements have been upgraded over the time through OCLC’s automated processes (note that “p.” above has become “pages”). Some RDA elements have been added:

  336 __ ǂa text ǂb txt ǂ2 rdacontent
  337 __ ǂa unmediated ǂb n ǂ2 rdamedia
  338 __ ǂa volume ǂb nc ǂ2 rdacarrier

as have FAST headings:

  650 _7 ǂa Astral projection. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst00819371

but the record as a whole has not been upgraded to RDA (not even to non-ISBD RDA) so is still considered a hybrid.