Lang, Robert (ed.):
LA COLLECTION DES "DOCUMENTS MÉDICAUX"
[16 issues bound in one volume]
Documents Médicaux, Paris, [ca. 1933].

In a perfectly aesthetic world, even a journal of gruesome medical photography would aspire to the highest standards of production and design… wouldn't it?

<-- "La Sympathologie"

[de Postels & Klinkel]:
TWINKLE TUNES PIANO BOOK
No publisher, no place; [ca. 1939].

The plinking of a 70-year-old toy piano makes a suitably eerie soundtrack, drifting from the back of a haunted bookshop.

<-- front cover, with toy piano keyboard

Haney, Robert, and David Ballantine; Jonathan Elliott (phot.):
WOODSTOCK HANDMADE HOUSES
Random House, New York, 1975.

The vernacular architecture of hippies in upstate New York: utopian dwellings for hermits and hobbits.

<-- front cover

[n/a]:
[BOUND ARTIFACT] (paper, leather, fur, plant material, etc.)
[no publisher, place, or date]

Bookseller's dilemma: in what section do you shelve a cryptic leatherbound book-object, apparently handmade as an art stunt by a mad occultist?

<-- (fur, vellum, Satan)

[Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]:
THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS
U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, 1950.

Disclaimer: "Atomic explosion phenomena are so complex as to make precise quantitative evaluation of their results almost impossible."

<-- front cover

Owens, Joseph:
DREAD: THE RASTAFARIANS OF JAMAICA
Sangster's Book Stores, Kingston, Jamaica, 1976.

Apparently it's more than just ganja smoke. "Dread is an experience: it is the awesome, fearful confrontation of a people with a primordial but historically denied racial selfhood."

<-- front cover