HOLLOW BOOK BOX
[date and manufacturer unknown]

A velvet-lined box disguised as a volume of the "Reader's Digest Condensed Books"; big enough to hold $3000 in twenties, or a small pistol.

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Young, Richard S.:
EXTRATERRESTRIAL BIOLOGY
Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, New York, 1966.

Pretty much theoretical.

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Solomon, Ed:
SERVICE IS AN HONORABLE PROFESSION
McGarvey's Boat Drive-In Restaurant, Vermilion, OH, 1972.

The how and why of waitressing: "Could any profession be so interesting? And profitable?"

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Wershoven, F.J.:
LILIPUT DICTIONARY: ENGLISH-FRENCH [and] FRANCAIS-ANGLAIS
Schmidt & Gunther, Leipzig [ca. 1930s].

Cute as a button, and almost as small.

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Faull, Lesley:
MEAT ON THE MENU IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Books of Africa, Cape Town, 1968.

A pocket with eight lurid meat postcards compensates somewhat for the regrettable absence of "bush meat" recipes in the text.

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Palombi, John:
"SEE YOU ON THE BLACKTOP!"
A&P Publishing, Rancho Cordova, CA, 1995.

An aggressive used-car sales philosophy is equally applicable to the secondhand book trade.

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