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INTERNATIONAL CLOUD ATLAS.
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 1956.

A nebulous subject expressed with Swiss precision: elegant, authoritative, and uniquely beautiful.

<-- Plate 35 (Opaque sheet of Altocumulus)

Wallace, Jane:
MASTURBATION: A WOMEN'S HANDBOOK
Side Hill Press, Brooklyn, 1976.

This fervid defense of female onanism is illustrated with very frank drawings of genitals.

<-- title page

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SURVIVAL IN LIKELY TARGET AREAS
Queen's Printer, Ottawa, 1962.

The duotone illustrations in this civil defense pamphlet offer a campy yet panic-inducing preview of what's in store when the H-bombs go off: doomed commuters huddling under bus seats; irradiated survivors squirming in the rubble; desperate families fighting fires; etc.

<-- front cover

Rooney, Dawn F.:
BETEL CHEWING TRADITIONS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1993.

Which is rarer: an English-language book on the habit of chewing betel nut, or a dilapidated bookman who admits to being a reformed daily user?

<-- front cover

[Morgan, Harry (comp.)]:
MORE RUGBY SONGS
Sphere Books Ltd., [London], 1968.

Prodigiously profane, if lacking in scholarly credibility.

<-- front cover

Lueck, Roger H. (ed.):
THE CANNED FOOD REFERENCE MANUAL
American Can Co., Hamilton, ON, 1943.

"A convenient and reliable reference text for those professional people who must deal intimately with commercially canned foods in the normal pursuit of their daily duties."

<-- pp. 226-227 (Views of the Testing Kitchen)