King, Michael S.:
ISLANDS IN THE NIGHT
[Self-published], Tallahassee, FL, 1974.

In this documentary photo-essay on nocturnal gas stations, an obscure photographer celebrates the transitory, the anonymous, the starkly overlit...

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GLOBE GENERAL CATALOG No. 47: MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR THE MEAT PACKING, SAUSAGE AND RENDERING PLANTS
The Globe Company, Chicago, 1947.

800 pages of nightmarish gear that no one wants to think about: shackles, stunning hammers, meat hooks, rib shears, scalding tubs, boning tables, offal pans, etc. Photo-illustrated, of course.

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Meyer, Jerome S.:
ADVICE ON THE CARE OF BABIES (BY A BACHELOR WHO CAN'T BEAR THEM)
Irwin & Gordon, Toronto, 1927.

Apparently intended as a gag gift for expectant fathers, these jokes and cartoons about parenthood are not just puerile -- they're downright sadistic. A real laff riot.

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Scobie, Alastair:
WOMEN OF AFRICA
Cassell, London, 1960.

Anthropological voyeurism with an alarmingly smug premise: "This is a different kind of African adventure, a safari into the private lives of African women."

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THE SUCCESSORS TO THE REVOLUTION
Korean People's Army Publishing House, [Pyongyang, ca. 1978].

What incomparable joy can be found in the smiling faces and revolutionary zeal of the cadets at this North Korean military orphanage! Text in stilted English; with many surreal color photos.

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Wilkie, Barnard:
CREATING SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR TV AND FILMS
Focal Press, London, 1977.

Smoke; mirrors; pyrotechnics; bullet effects; snow and frost; destruction of automobiles; and many more tricks, all explicated with pleasingly technical duotone illustrations.

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