n/a:
THE WELLCOME MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
Wellcome Foundation Ltd., London, [ca. 1950s].

Doesn't every clinically-minded museum geek aspire to "conformity without tedium, exactitude without restraint and tidiness without rigidity" -- ?

<-- pp. 14-15

Lartigue, Jacques-Henri:
LES FEMMES AUX CIGARETTES
Viking Press, New York, 1980.

For students of world-weary sensuality: 96 photos of Parisian cabaret performers from the 1920s, all of them sporting cigarettes.

<-- pp. 6-7

n/a:
"TELL ME ANOTHER"
J.B. White Ltd., Fife, [ca. 1930s].

A collection of cheeseball jokes about Scottish parsimony, accompanied by colour illustrations at once creepy and endearing.

<-- front cover

Penn, Herman J.:
ENCYCLOPEDIC GUIDE TO PLANNING AND ESTABLISHING AN AUDITORIUM, ARENA, COLISEUM OR MULTI-PURPOSE BUILDING
Penn-Fleming Publications, Greenville, SC, 1963.

Sometimes it pays to dream big.

<-- front cover

Dr. Willy, et al.:
THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX
Reprint edition. Cadillac Publishing Co., New York, 1965.

Though intended for a general audience, this manual won't necessarily soothe the anxieties of the bashful.

<-- plates 10-11

Daniell, David Scott, & Jack Matthew [illus.]:
FLIGHT TWO: CANADA
Wills & Hepworth Ltd., Loughborough, UK, 1959.

Wholesome propaganda for kids of the Commonwealth, as cloying as a shotglass of pure maple syrup.

<-- pp. 14-15