James, Barry:
CALL ME MISTER.
Milady Publishing, Bronx, NY, 1974.

Everything your dad was supposed to teach you: how to fold a handkerchief, shop for a plaid blazer, offer a lady a cigarette... even how get a job in public relations. Illustrated.

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McClow, L.L.; D.N. Anderson (illus.):
TUMBLING ILLUSTRATED
A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1931.

Gymnastics rendered in absurdist shorthand, with over 650 floor routines portrayed as sequences of squiggly stick-figures.

<-- pp. 104-105 (One Performer and Thrower)

Uhlin, Donald M. and Edith de Chiara:
ART FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, IA, 1984.

Emotional disturbance and art expression; art and the violence-prone personality; structuring and maintaining reality; etc. With over 300 unsettling illustrations.

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Wilson, D. Miller:
AN INSTRUCTION BOOK ON THE PIANO-PLAYER AND THE PLAYER-PIANO
[self-published, London, ca. 1910].

"Like a great steam hammer, which can crack a walnut or strike with tons of force, the player-piano has every gradation of touch from the softest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo."

<-- Fig. IV & p. 25 (Driving Gear and Re-Wind Mechanism)

n/a:
CLASSIFIED LIST AND INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF DAFFODIL NAMES
Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1969.

The names of over 11,000 daffodil cultivars, many of which are also suitable as CB radio handles (i.e., Tuba; Moon Boy; Gremlin; Salmon Queen; etc.).

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n/a:
A WAY TO DO IT BETTER
Eastman Kodak Co., [Rochester, NY, 1971].

A large-format publicity piece promoting the commercial possibilities of industrial photography; with hundreds of color photos of scientific manufacturing at its most glamorous.

<-- pp. 96-97, "Aero Commander" [detail]