Svandrlik, Miloslav, and "Neprakta" (illus.):
PRAGUE GHOSTS
Pragopress, Praha, 1968.

The 45 individual ghosts known to haunt Prague neighborhoods are treated here not as malevolent ghouls, but as harmless urban eccentrics. Text in English.

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Cross, R.W. Jeremy L.:
THE TRUE MASONIC CHART, OR HIEROGLYPHIC MONITOR [etc.]
S.A. Rollo & Co., New York, 1859.

A practitioner's guide to Freemasonry, with 52 baffling engravings of emblems and graphic devices, intended to elucidate the brotherhood's occult iconography.

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Sorrows, Gene:
ALL ABOUT CARNIVALS
American Federation of Police, Miami, 1985.

Longtime carny turns snitch, reveals the secrets behind the sleazy swindles of the midway; very entertaining glossary also.

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n/a:
ILLUSTRATED PRICE CATALOGUE OF OLD BOOKS WANTED
American Book Mart, Chicago, 1937.

Apparently booksellers have always been generous: these folks would gladly offer you $3.50 for the original 1922 Paris edition of Joyce's "Ulysses."

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Phillips, H.I. ("Hi"):
THE FOOLISH QUESTION BOOK
Edward J. Clode Inc., New York, 1927.

"Q: Where is rubber found? A: In chicken pies... Q: Where are bisons found? A: On the backs of nickels... Q: Where is Madagascar? A: Heavens! Have they misplaced that again?"

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Dubas, Frederic, and Jacques Vallotton (eds.):
COLOUR ATLAS OF MOUNTAIN MEDICINE
Mosby Year Book, St. Louis, 1991.

Acute frostbite, high-altitude neurological disturbances, compound skiing fractures, mountaineering head trauma, etc.; with alarmingly grisly photos throughout.

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