tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70586688523603138502024-03-06T03:21:51.586-05:00The Monkey's PawThe Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comBlogger614125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-46041052006460554542013-01-17T15:56:00.000-05:002013-01-17T15:56:31.840-05:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A book whose allure is actually increased by its utter lack of practical utility for most earthlings.</span></span></i><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="userContent">Reminder to all staff: Do <b>NOT</b> shelve these next to Tom of Finland!</span></span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Sherlock Holmes mystery grows even more mysterious when printed in shorthand.</span></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Have you heard of the new parlour game called "Monkey's Paw"? Friends compete to see who can invent the most sublimely banal book title.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What kind of magazine devotes ten full pages to a typeface composed of naked women photographed on the floor of a Dutch gymnasium?</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<br />The Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-71780173596968170522012-12-08T16:25:00.000-05:002012-12-08T16:25:00.398-05:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">Maybe we should hold onto this one for our reference library...</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">"Note: These unusual photographs of real
bunnies were made possible only by patient unfailing kindness on the
part of the photographer at all times."</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">It's hard to imagine a more poignant bulletin
from the lost Age of Print than a photo-illustrated "Report of the State
Librarian, 1894."</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">A foreign atlas can inspire a mood of restless longing and impenetrable solitude.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bibliographic recursion: a printed and bound paper artifact that describes the technology of printing and binding paper artifacts.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Sometimes movements carried out by particular muscle groups or pointing toward special body areas stand out with arresting significance."</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Customers demonstrate a wide variety of reactions when they first encounter the Monkey's Paw "Biblio-Mat."</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A naive young socialite enthuses over the decor of the opium den: "It has cushions which simply reek of Oriental voluptuousness and cruelty!"</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"When you undertake the investigation of the lives of creatures other than humans, you must realize an entirely different set of standards, and no emotions whatever."</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>* * MONKEY'S PAW HALLOWEEN CATALOGUE 2012 * *</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A
child masquerading in a mummy's bandages; a cubicle worker hamming it
up as a decaying zombie; a clumsy dad butchering a fat pumpkin with a
knife. Behind the giggles, they all share an awesome mortal underst<span style="font-size: x-small;">anding</span>:
that death and life are two sides of the same coin, and that to
celebrate one is, inevitably, to celebrate the other. It's our favourite
time of year. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Happy Halloween everybody.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Knox, William; L.B. Humphrey (illus.):<br />OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD?<br />Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1878.</b><br /><i>Why indeed, when your spirit could instead be thoroughly humbled and depressed by an obsessive poetic meditation on mortality and impermanence? This high-Victorian illustrated edition, in which each stanza is accompanied by a gloomy engraving of loss and despair, elevates an already macabre work of verse to irresistible grave candy for the gothically-inclined.</i><br />.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Lieberman, Archie (phot.); Ray Bradbury (story):<br />THE MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO<br />Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1978.</b> <br /><i>How do you add a cosmopolitan sheen to your Dia de los Muertos? We recommend a photo study of the legendary desiccated corpses on display at Guanajuato, Mexico, paired with a squeamish horror story on the same subject by the gringo laureate of October moods. Printed in sepulchral photogravure, it's quite an elegant production, despite the hideous grimaces and caved-in eye sockets of the disinterred "mummies."</i><br />.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Mayer, J. Sheridan:<br />RESTORATIVE ART<br />6th Ed.; self-published, Bergenfield, NJ, 1970.</b><br /><i>It doesn't require much skill to put on a Frankenstein mask, but what about costuming in the opposite direction -- how can a walking corpse make herself up to look believably alive? Here, a 30-year veteran of the mortuary cosmetics racket shares all his trade secrets: plumping up hollow cheeks; repairing scabby lips; covering bruises and lacerations; even repositioning a decapitated head. </i>.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Poe, Edgar Allan:<br />THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. FACSIMILE OF THE MS. IN THE DREXEL INSTITUTE<br />George Barrie & Son, Philadelphia, 1895.</b> <br /><i>Any edition of Poe will accessorize nicely with a black velvet frock coat; but to give real authenticity to your consumptive poet costume, it's best to carry a slender volume of manuscript. This facsimile of the world's first detective story (featuring a homicidal ape wielding a straight-razor) retains the author's corrections as well as his careful, elegant handwriting. The effect is so vivid that you can almost hear the quill scratching on the foolscap.</i>.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Symon, Jon:<br />THE GRIMOREUM VERUM<br />Acorn Grimoire Makers, Hamilton, ON, [undated; 1980s?].</b><br /><i>Feeling lonely on Halloween? This tiny book -- purportedly a compilation of three hard-to-trace antiquarian texts on black magic -- catalogues dozens of demons, along with their magical sigils and the "conjurations" required to summon them. If the care taken in its manufacture (letterpress printed, and lovingly bound) is any indication of the work's efficacy, you can expect trick-or-treaters with names like Sustugriel, Nebiros, and Heramael to darken your doorway this week.</i><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*** end Halloween Catalogue 2012 ***</span></b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The world's first and only antiquarian book vending machine, installed this week at the Monkey's Paw.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Man is the fundamental instrument in war; other instruments may change, but he remains relatively constant."</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />The Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-1185825803575605412012-10-19T16:45:00.000-04:002012-10-27T16:45:18.414-04:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-20763542870196269882012-10-17T16:43:00.000-04:002012-10-27T16:43:34.244-04:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">[Please note: Catalogue items will not be offered for sale until 5 pm on Friday Oct. 12. </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Babitz, Eve:<br />FIORUCCI, THE BOOK<br />Harlan Quist, New York, 1980</b><br /><i>In the late 1970s, Fiorucci was more than just a fashion line -- it was a postmodern experiment in New Wave merchandising, and the spandex soul of nightclub glamour. There's only one book on the subject... </i><i> </i><br />.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Bartholomew, John:<br />PROGRESSIVE ATLAS, CONSISTING OF THIRTY-TWO MAPS<br />Williams Collins, Sons, & Co., Glasgow, 1869</b><br /><i>For a pretty window into the worldview of the Victorian child, here's a school atlas featuring delicately-coloured maps drawn by a renowned Scottish cartographer. Uncommon.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Becher, Bernhard & Hilla:<br />ANONYME SKULPTUREN: A TYPOLOGY OF TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTIONS<br />Wittenborn & Co., New York, 1970</b><br /><i>One of the 20th century's most influential photographic art projects, featuring matched pairs of not-quite-identical industrial structures, viewed starkly against bland pale skies. Mesmerizing.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Bel Geddes, Norman:<br />MAGIC MOTORWAYS<br />Random House, New York, 1940</b><br /><i>A stage designer turned visionary, Bel Geddes created the General Motors "Futurama" pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair; then (in this book) laid the conceptual framework for the superhighway systems that defined the postwar world. This copy <b>inscribed by the author</b>.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Carboni, Erberto:<br />EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS<br />Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, Milano, 1959</b><br /><i>Over 600 photogravure images of obscenely stylish installations designed for </i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>mid-century </i></span>trade shows and industry exhibitions. A cosmopolitan production, with text in English, German, French, and Italian.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>[n.a.]<br />CHARM AND POISE FOR GETTING AHEAD<br />Milady Publishing, Bronx, 1972</b><br /><i>From the publishers of the legendary "Call Me Mister," a manual on comportment and style for aspirational young women. Readers are sure to make the right impression in the secretarial pool. Numerous duotone illustrations throughout.</i></span><br />.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>[Class Handbooks for the Indian Army]</i><br />Bingley, Capt. A.H. and Capt. A. Nichols:<br />BRAHMANS<br /><i>[and]</i><br />Bingley, A.H.; A.B. Longden (rev.):<br />DOGRAS<br /><i>[and]</i><br />Holland-Pryor, Major P.:<br />MAPPILLAS OR MOPLAHS<br />Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1904-1918</b><br /><i>The pre-history of multiculturalism: manuals offering front-line ethnographic data for British officers leading colonial regiments from India, segregated according to ethnicity or caste.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Crumb, R[obert], S. Clay Wilson, et al.<br />SNATCH COMICS [Issues 1-3]<br />[Apex Novelties, San Francisco], 1968-69</b><br /><i>Yes, there was a time when underground comics were TRULY transgressive... and there's something here to offend just about anyone. But despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Crumb stands as one of the most revered and recognizable artist-illustrators of the 20th century.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Devlin, Barry:<br />GOLF WIDOW<br />Vixen Press, New York, 1953</b><br /><i>Probably the only 1950s smut novel to feature the twin themes of lesbianism and golf. An exceedingly scarce title.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"Mme. Doudet"<br />BÉBÉ DEVIENT SAVANT<br />Theodore Lefevre, Paris, [ca. 1878]</b><br /><i>Once again, knowledge and beauty walk hand in hand. Illustrated throughout with lovely hand-coloured engravings on natural history, agriculture, and industry.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>General Idea [AA Bronson, Felix Partz, & Jorge Zontal]:<br />FILE MEGAZINE, Volumes 1 & 2 (six issues, complete)<br />Art Official, Toronto, 1972-73</b><br /><i>The first two years of the hugely influential "art organ" produced by conceptual/media arts collective General Idea. Complete with all inserts. Each issue is one of 3000 copies printed.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Goudeau, Emile, & Charles Morice (eds.):<br />PARIS-ALMANACH [three issues]<br />Librairie Ed. Sagot, Paris, 1895-97</b><br /><i>The complete three-year run of a charming Belle Epoque annual, illustrated with many original lithographs and woodcuts of coquettes and flâneurs at play.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>[Emanuel Haldeman-Julius and his pamphlet empire]</i></span><br />Haldeman-Julius, E.:<br />THE FIRST HUNDRED MILLION<br />Simon and Schuster, New York, 1928</b><br /><i>An account of the Little Blue Books series, told by its flamboyant editor/entrepreneur. With a wealth of data on mass-production methods and pioneering sales techniques. First edition.</i><br /><i><b>[and]</b></i><br /><b>Haldeman-Julius, E.:<br />MY SECOND 25 YEARS: INSTEAD OF A FOOTNOTE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY<br />Haldeman-Julius Publications, Girard, KS, 1949</b><br /><i>With background on various contributors to the Little Blue Books series (including title lists and sales figures), and several photos of E.H-J and his family. <b>Signed by Haldeman-Julius.</b></i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Harrison, A.S.A.; AA Bronson (design):<br />[TWENTY-TWO WOMEN TALK FRANKLY ABOUT THEIR] ORGASMS<br />Coach House Press, Toronto, 1974</b><br />A series of interviews with liberated '70s chicks, on a subject of nearly universal interest. Book design by AA Bronson of General Idea.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Herzl, Theodor; J. de Haas (ed.)<br /><i>A JEWISH STATE: AN ATTEMPT AT A MODERN SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH QUESTION</i><br />Maccabaean Publishing Co., New York, 1904</b><br /><i>The foundational text of modern Zionism: a work of immeasurable geopolitical influence. This is the exceptionally scarce first American edition.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>LeWitt, Sol:<br />AUTOBIOGRAPHY<br />Multiples Inc., New York, 1980</b><br /><i>By one of the lauded fathers of conceptualism, a revealing self-analysis: hundreds of affectless photos, organized in a characteristic grid configuration, portraying all the material objects that constitute the artist's life. Strange and powerful work.</i><br />.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>MacDonald, Thoreau (illus.):<br />SOME PROVERBS FROM RUSSIA<br />Privately printed, [Thornhill, ON?], 1934</b><br /><i>Wry scraps of folk wisdom, accompanied by nine lovely hand-coloured lino-cuts and cover design by Thoreau MacDonald. Stamped "TM 1934" on final page.</i></span><br />.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Mathews, F. Schuyler<br />FIELD BOOK OF WILD BIRDS AND THEIR MUSIC<br />G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1904</b><br /><i>The
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bird song rendered into musical notation; with many colour plates.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>[The NASA History Series]</i><br />Swenson, Loyd S., James M. Grimwood, et al.:<br />THIS NEW OCEAN, A HISTORY OF PROJECT MERCURY</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> <i>[and]</i> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>ON THE SHOULDERS OF TITANS, A HISTORY OF PROJECT GEMINI</b></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>[and]</b></span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>CHARIOTS FOR APOLLO, A HISTORY OF MANNED LUNAR SPACECRAFT<br />National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, 1966-77-79</b><br /><i>The official NASA histories of the U.S. space program, culminating with the Apollo moon walks: surely one of mankind's most epic achievements. It's safe to say that in 500 years, this will be a very valuable set of books.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Nerdinger, Eugen, & Lisa Beck:<br />ALPHABETS FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS<br />Crosby Lockwood & Son, London, 1965</b><br /><i>It's not often you can apply the word "charismatic" to a printed artifact. But this book -- enormous in both physical size and visual impact -- exerts an almost palpable magnetism.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>["New Furniture" series]</b></i><br /><b>Hatje, Gerd (ed.); Alvin Lustig (American supplement)<br />NEW FURNITURE / NEUE MOBEL / MEUBLES NOUVEAUX: 2<br /><i>[and]</i><br />Hatje, Gerd (ed.); John Peter (American section)<br />NEW FURNITURE / NEUE MOBEL / MEUBLES NOUVEAUX: 3<br />George Wittenborn, New York, 1953-55</b><br />Even 60 years ago, it was evident that those Northern Europeans had hit upon a classic formula: beauty + utility + simplicity = furniture to fantasize about.<br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>[Outing Handbooks]</i><br />Kephart, Horace:<br />CAMP COOKERY<br /><i>[and]</i><br />Pinkerton, Robert E.<br />THE CANOE: ITS SELECTION, CARE AND USE<br />Outing Publishing Co., New York, 1910-16</b><br /><i>If you find freeze-dried entrees and aluminum boat construction distasteful, these guidebooks can lead you to a more authentic wilderness experience: call it the days of wood and bacon.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Ovette, Joseph; Preston L. Hickey (ed.):<br />PRACTICAL TELEPATHY<br />Reilly Co., Chicago, 1924</b><br /><i>Did you ever wonder how they do it? Here are mind-reading tricks for the stage, by a prominent magician of the early 20th century. Exceedingly uncommon.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>PICK-A-HANKY<br />Scarves & Allied Arts, [Montreal, ca. 1940]</b><br /><i>Kinda creepy: a collection of seven printed handkerchiefs (one for each day of the week), displayed in a cardstock portfolio. Illustrated inside and out with full-colour portrayals of cherubic boys frolicking.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>[Emily Post's landmark work on manners]</i><br />Post, Emily:<br />ETIQUETTE IN SOCIETY, IN BUSINESS, IN POLITICS AND AT HOME<br />Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1923</b><br /><i>An uncommon early printing of the most influential etiquette book of the 20th century.</i><br /><b><i>[and]</i><br />Post, Emily<br />ETIQUETTE, "THE BLUE BOOK OF SOCIAL USAGE"<br />Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1938</b><br /><i>A later printing of the same work (though under a revised title). This copy is <b>signed by Emily Post,</b> in the polite sort of handwriting you'd expect.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"R.K."; Henry Rox (illus.):<br />LIFE-SPARK STORIES FOR THE INTELLIGENT YOUNG<br />Women's Printing Society, London [ca. 1930s]</b><br /><i>A scarce theosophical work for children. Follows the career of a "life-spark" as he inhabits and passes through a sequence of species and lives; illustrated with many odd, simplistic pen drawings.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>["Self and Sex" series]</i><br />Mary Wood-Allen, Sylvanus Stall, and Emma F.A. Drake:<br />WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOW<br /><i>[and]</i><br />WHAT A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO KNOW<br /><i>[and]</i><br />WHAT A YOUNG WIFE OUGHT TO KNOW<br /><i>[and]</i><br />WHAT A YOUNG HUSBAND OUGHT TO KNOW<br /><i>[and]</i><br />WHAT A MAN OF FORTY-FIVE OUGHT TO KNOW<br />Vir Publishing Co., Philadephia, 1897-1913</b><br /><i>The "solitary vice" is a menace to all people at all ages, and consequently it makes sense to offer a moralizing tract for every possible demographic.</i><br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"The Two Taylors" (illus.):<br />A BOOK OF AIRPLANES<br />Whitman Publishing, Racine, WI, 1930</b><br /><i>Streamlined aeronautical glamour: 22 portraits of biplanes, flying boats, etc., printed in cloyingly rich art deco colours.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>[Western Union]:<br />WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPHIC CODE (UNIVERSAL EDITION)<br />International Cable Directory Co., New York, 1900</b><br /><i>A cumbersome scheme for encoding telegrams... but can also be appreciated as a madman's phrasebook to a language that doesn't exist.</i> <br />.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well-stocked with unexpected conceptual pairings: vegetable sheep; snake nuts; the moss insect; pipe fish; etc.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How many words for snow? Twelve, actually.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVknun2ZLGok21aTa7FGjKe7XENMdduJ6Q2Vp27S8Szinbgs9RjoNQCS57tK_WhQGgJl_SBEPZbZo3HjXwciXVunlzo86o3lG_86Q5qqwlBcoog5EcUDdIDdABq0_6xPRdMvUvMSgpsw/s1600/24364.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVknun2ZLGok21aTa7FGjKe7XENMdduJ6Q2Vp27S8Szinbgs9RjoNQCS57tK_WhQGgJl_SBEPZbZo3HjXwciXVunlzo86o3lG_86Q5qqwlBcoog5EcUDdIDdABq0_6xPRdMvUvMSgpsw/s320/24364.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For kilt geeks who need to cover a square meter of blank wall space: a clan-authorized chart detailing the weaving specifications of 141 Scottish tartans.</span><br /></td></tr>
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<br />The Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-56874205441957924842012-09-25T12:47:00.000-04:002012-10-03T12:48:20.044-04:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the other hand, we don't get so many requests for books on 16th-century inventors of clockwork automata...</span></td></tr>
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<br />The Monkey's Pawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418662309083737419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058668852360313850.post-6842003765620446282012-09-18T12:46:00.000-04:002012-10-03T12:47:01.222-04:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The Royal Meteorological Society is justifiably proud of its remarkable collection of cloud photographs."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What marvels reside within the Merle Norman Tower of Beauty at San Sylmar, California? (Hint: there's a 7" record in a pocket at the back of the book.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And all this time we thought it was just a psychoactive aid to the appreciation of old books...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before you progress to this level, you must first master the skill of lifting a sagging box of old pamphlets from the trunk of your car.</span></td></tr>
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