Chang Kuang-Yu and Chang Cheng-Yu:
PEKING OPERA MAKE-UP: AN ALBUM OF CUT-OUTS
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1959.

Eastern melodrama leaps off the page: a leopard demon, a monkey hero, a girl who dies of a broken heart, etc., rendered as full-color three-dimensional paper dolls.

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Thurgood, R.J.:
THE COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BARBED WIRE
Collector Books, Paducah, KY, 1972.

What could be more captivating, or more cruel, than tiny, painstaking sketches of 487 species of barbed wire?

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Hovannessian, Arshavir Ter ["Aterhov"]:
RAW-EATING, OR A NEW WORLD FREE FROM DISEASES, VICES AND POISONS
Second Edition. [Self-published], Tehran, 1967.

"The consumption of cooked food is the most terrible barbarism in the history of mankind, a barbarism that no one seems to be aware of and to which everybody falls an unconscious victim."

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Izard, Janet Wright:
MANDALA COLORING PAD
Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1973.

As every 4-year-old knows, nirvana is most easily achieved by lying on the floor with a coloring book and a rainbow assortment of crayons.

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n/a:
DICTIONARY OF OCCUPATIONAL TITLES. VOLUME I: DEFINITIONS OF TITLES
Third Edition. U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, 1965.

A compilation of some 20,000 brief and often unexpected job descriptions, ranging from "Abalone Diver" to "Zylo Mounter" -- without a single mention of "Used Book Tycoon."

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Sjöstedt, Ulf (ed.):
HASSELBLAD, FEATURING: APOLLO IX, X AND XI
Victor Hasselblad, Göteborg, Sweden, [1969].

Justifiable bragging rights: If the first three Apollo moon landings were documented with cameras designed and manufactured by your family company, you'd probably be proud enough to publish a commemorative pamphlet about it, too.

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