July 19, 2009


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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