May 11, 2008


Hodgson, Fred. T.:
PRACTICAL BUNGALOWS AND COTTAGES FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY
Frederick J. Drake & Co., Chicago, 1912.

Over 200 architectural drawings and floor plans: like revisiting a forgotten dream city.

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Herrero, Stephen:
BEAR ATTACKS: THEIR CAUSES AND AVOIDANCE
Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1985.

Sometimes they supplement their berries and honey with a little man-flesh.

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Cox, Doris, and Barbara Warren Weismann:
CREATIVE HANDS, AN INTRODUCTION TO CRAFT TECHNIQUES
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1948.

It's a nice cover design, but the endpapers are even lovelier.

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Faraday, Michael:
THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE
Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1957.

The natural world illuminated by a Victorian genius.

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Hymoff, Edward:
GUIDANCE AND CONTROL OF SPACECRAFT
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1966.

Would you rather careen aimlessly through the vast emptiness?

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[n/a]:

THE SOVIET CIRCUS: A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1967. First printing.

Bears on motorcycles! Brezhnev-era clowns!

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