October 5, 2008


Hornaday, William T.:
TAXIDERMY AND ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTING
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905.

"The sight of a particularly fine animal, either alive or dead, excites within me feelings of admiration that often amount to genuine affection..."

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Hutchison, Harold F. (intro.):
LONDON TRANSPORT POSTERS
London Transport Board, 1963.

Five decades of soothing, even bucolic, artwork commissioned to promote a crowded urban transit system.

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Needham, Jack:
MODELLING SHIPS IN BOTTLES
Patrick Stephens, London, 1972.

So THAT'S how they do it!

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Jacopetti, Alexandra; Jerry Wainwright (phot.):

NATIVE FUNK & FLASH: AN EMERGING FOLK ART
Scrimshaw Press, [San Francisco], 1974.

The bedrock values of hippie culture, revealed through its denim handicrafts: homely, preposterous, and lavishly creative.

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Rowland, Beryl:
BIRDS WITH HUMAN SOULS

University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1978.

An erudite panorama of bird symbolism throughout Western culture, from lyrical swan to lecherous sparrow.

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Devereux, George:
MOHAVE ETHNOPSYCHIATRY: THE PSYCHIC DISTURBANCES OF AN INDIAN TRIBE
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1969.

Hunter's neurosis; the psychopathology of singers; sexual insanity resulting from witchcraft; and countless other mental ailments specific to the dwindling Mohave people of the Southwest.

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