September 20, 2009


[wine & liquor label album]:
"LABELS"

[blank journal, ca. 1970]


Remembrances of hangovers past: labels from over 100 sweet fizzy wines, flavored liqueurs, cheap gins, etc., lovingly pasted into an album. No text.


<-- "Crème de Menthe"


n/a:
SWIMMING IN NEW CHINA -- THE MASS WAY

People's Sports Publishing House, Peking, [ca. 1976].


In a reactionary's nightmare, the rivers, lakes, and canals become a human soup, filled with bobbing proles paddling furiously toward shore. Illustrated with photos.


<-- front cover


Smith, Wilbert B.; Timothy Green Beckley (ed.):
THE BOYS FROM TOPSIDE

Saucerian Books, Clarksburg, WV, 1969.


"One of the most interesting aspects of the study of flying saucers, beyond the realization that they are real and extraterrestrial, is their philosophy."


<-- front cover

[Charles Cluthe & Sons]:
CLUTHE'S ADVICE TO THE RUPTURED

Cluthe Rupture Institute, Bloomfield, NJ, 1912.


Rein in your hernia with a truss manufactured by the Cluthe family, and perhaps you'll join the satisfied customers whose testimonials occupy 23 pages of this hard-selling promotional book.

<-- frontis & title page


Hennessey, James, and Victor Papanek:
NOMADIC FURNITURE
Pantheon Books, New York, 1973.

A sensible and eco-oriented guide to cheap, portable and build-it-yourself furnishings for students and other urban gypsies; includes a description of an entire secondhand bookshop built from fruit crates.

<-- front cover


n/a:
POULTRY PORTRAITS: No. 1, ENGLISH TYPES

Canadian Poultry Review, Toronto, [ca. 1898].


For the devoted chicken fancier, a portfolio of 12 large-format engravings (Hamburg Hen, Minorca Pullet, Black Hamburg Cock, etc.), suitable for framing.


<-- front cover