The futuristic allure of a geodesic house is undeniable; but with a circular floor plan, where do you put the sofa?

As an endangered species falters toward extinction, certain people grow more willing to revere or even idolize it...

Another improbable but enduring example of monogamy between a pair of books.

When you're scanning the shelves of a defunct bookshop on an isolated country road, take care to look closely at every spine.

Two profoundly cool band names on a single book cover.

Poring over 1400 images of exotic cultural practices might turn you into a more open-minded citizen of the world... or maybe just an ethnographic voyeur in an armchair.

In a perfectly balanced world, a graphic design theorist would geek out over this title while listening to Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool."

"To diagnose and prescribe the right treatment, one needs experience and a knowledge of the anatomy of a book."

"Whatever the party -- wherever the place, whoever the guests -- I can truthfully say I have yet to give a dull one."

Swatches of polyester textiles add a thrilling tactile dimension to the book-artifact. (Nice colours, too.)

The burden of history? How about a single volume the weight of a brick, containing over 2500 solemn portrait photos of long-dead Canadian white men with mustaches.

The "science" of predicting female character traits according to breast shape is dubious to begin with; when you strip off the dustjacket, it gets downright gratuitous.

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase, "... a Soviet-published survey of mid-'60s book design" -- ?

Even bibliophiles can be seduced by insolent self-assurance.

The seeds of weeds: their creeds and misdeeds.

From the vest pocket of a jet-setting leprechaun.

In video game years, this book is 3,000 years old.

"Since the Haberule Character Count Scales and Conversion Chart are scientific in principle, your Haberule Visual Copy-Caster will always remain up-to-date."

Elusive bibliographic quarry: a phrasebook to a language that doesn't exist.

"If you mean to speak about pigs, or local government finance, or the poetry of Wordsworth, or abstract painting, you must know pigs, finance, Wordsworth, or abstract painting thoroughly well, and have some strong feelings about them."