Greey, Edward:
THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO [etc.]
Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1884.

Disguised as the frivolous tale of an American family traveling in Japan's northern islands, this is in fact a serious and detailed study of the "hairy" Ainu people indigenous to the region.

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[Bosch, Vernon]:
SEXUAL DIMENSIONS: THE FACT AND FICTION OF GENITAL SIZE
[Ax Produxions, Dayton, OH, 1970].

A work of enormous interest, even if this particular copy -- lacking the first four pages -- comes up short. Includes well-developed scholarly apparatus.

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Alter, Dinsmore:
PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE MOON
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1963.

"Within a few years men will land on the moon and find out what it is really like."

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Cantor, Eddie:
CAUGHT SHORT! A SAGA OF WAILING WALL STREET
Musson Book Co., Toronto, 1929.

The "we laugh that we do not cry" school of publishing: Cantor, a comedian who lost a fortune in the Crash of '29, issued this humor title just six weeks later.

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[trivia card game]:
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CANADA?
T. Eaton Co., [Toronto, ca. 1930].

Boxed set of 144 cards, each bearing a nearly-unanswerable question about the history, geography, or culture of North America's most self-effacing nation.

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Talbott, John H.:
GOUT
Grune & Stratton, New York, 1964.

"Endowed with a bountiful and noble heritage, gout has afflicted many eminent persons throughout history."

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