An Arrangement of Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough in Play Form
Publisher:
Vantage Press
Edition / Year:
1987 
Remainder Pile
The REP Book
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Elliman, Sons & Co., Slough, England
Edition / Year:
2ns Edition. 1903 REP stands for “Rubbing Eases Pain”, the slogan of Elliman's Embrocation, a product happily still available. The book is intended as a guide to First Aid for the home, and indeed some of the medical advice is fascinating, but even better are the numerous characteristically Edwardian illustrations.
Rambling Into Romantic Candy Antiquity
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
The Author
Edition / Year:
1966 In his delightfully eccentric book Gus Pulakos sets out to write a history of confectionery, but he throws in so much other material that it ends up as a wild confection in itself. At the time he wrote it, Gus was running Pulakos 926 Chocolates. A still-thriving company, it was founded in 1903 by Gus's father George, from whom Gus presumably inherited his enthusiasm for chocolate.
Faces of World's Captains
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
The Author
Edition / Year:
1971 
Once in a while I come across a book whose oddity is charming rather than idiotic: Faces of World's Captains is one such. It records a series of drawings made by Kenji Miyakoshi when he was working as a harbour pilot in Tokyo Bay. Whenever he had piloted a vessel he would make a sketch of its captain from memory. Finally he had about 3000 drawings of which more than 600 are collected in this self-published volume. He says of his work:
The Kemsley Manual of Journalism
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Kemsley Newspapers
Edition / Year:
1950 The Kemsley Newspapers group was in 1950, when this book was written, a significant force in the British press market. It included the Sunday Times, the Daily Graphic, the Sunday Chronicle, the Daily Dispatch and a number of provincial newspapers. The group was owned by Viscount Kemsley, who wrote the introduction to this volume.
And Now Its Nail Time
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
The Author
Edition / Year:
1971 |
If you publish a book yourself, you can have it just the way you want: you can, for instance, give it a cack-handed title, with an apostrophe missing; you can put a really corny photograph on the cover; and you can include a badly executed drawing of yourself opposite the copyright page, as if it were a personal memoir rather than being about collecting railroad nails. |
Home Made Gadgets Magazine
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Publisher:
Postlib Publications
Edition / Year:
Vol 7 No. 11. November 1954 
The desperation of the post war years, the cheapness and shoddiness of those times, is captured forever in the pages of this strange little publication.
Towles' Portrait Lightings
Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Edition / Year:
1925 
This book purports to teach something of the art of lighting for studio portrait photography, but in fact it is a collection of images of the most debauched of humanity, masquerading as ordinary folk.
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