Schoenleber, F.S., and R.R. Dykstra:
CASTRATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Orange Judd Co., New York, 1919.

There's more than one way to emasculate a cat: this instructive manual describes scraping, crushing, twisting, ligating, and tearing away.

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Sayer, Edgar Sheappard:
PIDGIN ENGLISH
Self-published mimeograph, Toronto, 1939.

A uniquely eccentric study of ethno-linguistics; also an inadvertent lesson on proper English, as written by a sneering racist during the late colonial period.

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[flip book]:
ACTION MINI-MOVIES
[no bibliographic data given; ca. 1940s].

Jaded 21st century pornaholics may scoff, but we believe this tiny, furtive photo-sequence of a woman in a bubble-bath still retains a saucy charm.

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Kivengere, Festo:
I LOVE IDI AMIN
Fleming H. Revell Co., Old Tappan, NJ, 1977.

With the patience of Job, this Ugandan bishop maintained his Christian optimism while his colleagues were being tortured and murdered.

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MacFarlane, C.:
THE LIVES AND EXPLOITS OF BANDITTI AND ROBBERS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD
T. Tegg, London, 1839.

"It may be said that no species of narrative, except, perhaps, that of shipwrecks, produces a deeper impression on people of all ages and conditions."

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[mail-order catalog]:
NATIONAL MAGIC COMPANY CATALOG NUMBER 3
Chicago, 1940.

Hundreds of illustrated ads for stage tricks like the Immortal Cigarette; Aladdin's Tea Kettle; the Mystic Tube; Cabbage from a Hat; etc. With order blank laid in.

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