n/a:
THE SECRET MUSEUM OF MANKIND
Manhattan House, New York, [ca. 1935].

Gawking at "the Other": over 700 anthropological photos of semi-naked natives, gloomy peasants, and bearded tribesmen, with only the briefest of captions for context.

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Zaffo, George J.:
YOUR POLICE
Garden City Books, New York, 1956.

Only rarely does pro-cop propaganda achieve a state of grace through sheer beauty and elegance of design.

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Kyei, Kojo Gyinaye; Hannah Schreckenbach (phot.):
NO TIME TO DIE
Catholic Press, Accra, Ghana, 1986.

Poems inspired by the personalized slogans painted on Ghanaian "mammy lorries" (i.e., jitney buses); with many photos of the fanciful vehicles themselves.

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Ellis, Edward S. (ed.)
1000 MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS BRIEFLY DESCRIBED
Hinds & Noble, New York, 1899

A handsome and compact book; but as far as the content is concerned, this looks like a case of quantity over quality.

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Heppenheimer, T.A.:
COLONIES IN SPACE
Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1977.

"It is possible that space colonization will become a generic subject, like Ecology or Women's Lib, which everyone knows something about and has an opinion on."

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Fowler, Murray E.:
RESTRAINT AND HANDLING OF WILD AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1981.

The grittiest and most intimate expressions of mankind's mastery over animals: nets, nooses, cages, anesthetics...

<-- p. 186, "Marsupials"