n/a:
A KEY TO ESPERANTO
[British Esperanto Association, London, ca. 1940].
Everyone's favorite universal language, fully explicated in a humble pamphlet not much larger than a credit card.
<-- front cover
June 8, 2008
Vishneva-Sarafanova, N.:
SOVIET WOMEN -- A PORTRAIT
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1981.
A retired fighter pilot; the headmistress of a tractor-driving school; the winner of the Moscow Hairdressing Contest; etc.
<-- front cover
June 1, 2008
Glasstone, Samuel (ed.):
THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Revised Edition. U.S. Dept. of Defense, Washington, 1962.
With handy circular slide rule ("Atomic Bomb Effects Calculator") in pocket at rear.
<-- front cover and slide rule insert
Kapp, Ronald O.:
HOW TO KNOW POLLEN AND SPORES
Wm. C. Brown Co, Dubuque, IA, 1969.
To the uninitiated, it's just dust.
<-- front cover
Bryan, Mary de Garmo:
THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA
F.S. Crofts & Co., New York, 1943.
The subject evokes a complicated stew of emotions in many former students.
<-- front cover
Huff, Sandy:
THE MAYAN CALENDAR MADE EASY [etc.]
Self-published; Safety Harbor, FL, 1984.
Insanely complicated, despite the encouraging title.
<-- front cover
Abramson, Harold A. (ed.):
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY, TRANSACTIONS OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE
Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, New York, 1957.
Articles include "Effect of LSD-25 on Snails," "Production and Control of Alcoholic Cravings in Rats," etc.
<-- front cover
Fiddes, Victor:
THE ARCHITECTURAL REQUIREMENTS OF PROTESTANT WORSHIP
Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1961.
Interesting, but distinctly dry -- just the way the vicar likes his sherry.
<-- front cover
May 25, 2008
Antrim, Minna Thomas:
A MIMIC'S CALENDAR FOR 1905
Henry Altemus Co., Philadelphia, 1904.
Tart aphorisms and pretty art nouveau duotones for every week of the year.
<-- pp. 10-11
Davis, J.J.:
COMMON WHITE GRUBS
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 1929.
Three and a half pounds of lead arsenate per 100 square feet of lawn should take care of the problem.
<-- front cover
Grave, Felix:
FENCING COMPREHENSIVE
Hutchinson & Co, London [ca. 1934].
With a couple of brief (but very useful) sections on the protocol of conducting formal duels.
<-- front cover
Grumley, Michael; Ed Gallucci (phot.):
HARD CORPS: STUDIES IN LEATHER AND SADOMASOCHISM
E.P. Dutton, New York, 1977.
Is it uncomfortable to wear a leather vest without a shirt underneath?
<-- front cover
Western Advertising magazine:
12th ANNUAL PORTFOLIO OF WESTERN ADVERTISING ART
Ramsey Oppenheim Pubs., San Francisco, 1957.
Evidence that late-1950s commercial art from California was the supreme expression of 20th century visual culture.
<-- front cover
Wilson, K., and D.J.B. White:
THE ANATOMY OF WOOD: ITS DIVERSITY AND VARIABILITY
Stobart & Son Ltd., London, 1986.
Those micro-photos of cellulose would make mesmerizing wallpaper patterns.
<-- front cover
May 18, 2008
Hooker, Worthington:
HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
Farmer, Brace, & Co., New York, 1856.
Of particular interest: Chapter XVII, "Connection of the Mind with the Body."
<-- pp. 80-81
Kazakevich, E[mmanuil]:
SPRING ON THE ODER
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953.
Sometimes you just feel like curling up with a Stalinist war novel.
<-- title page
Grozinger, Wolfgang:
SCRIBBLING, DRAWING, PAINTING: THE EARLY FORMS OF THE CHILD'S PICTORIAL CREATIVENESS
Faber and Faber, London, [1955].
What could be more touching than a three-year-old's drawing of a mouse eating grapes?
<-- front cover
Etlin, Richard A.:
THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEATH: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CEMETERY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS
MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984.
File under "gothitecture."
<-- front cover
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