Remainder Pile

The Golden Bough

Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
An Arrangement of Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough in Play Form
Author(s): 
Mary Margaret Bitting
Publisher: 
Vantage Press
Edition / Year: 
1987

The Golden Bough

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
Author(s): 
Gus Pulakos
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
Author(s): 
Kenji Myakoshi
Publisher: 
The Author
Edition / Year: 
1971

Faces of World's Captains

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:

Some Bods Move On

Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Author(s): 
E. W. Martell
Publisher: 
The Author, Tunbridge Wells
Edition / Year: 
1973

Some Bods Move On, by E. W. Martell

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
Author(s): 
Kenneth B Shaw
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.

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates

Posted by Alfred Armstrong
Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:59
Author(s): 
Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent
Publisher: 
Edward Moxon & Co., London
Edition / Year: 
9th Edition. 1860

Book is tatty, but leather-bound and marbled

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

Home-Made Gadgets Magazine, 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
Author(s): 
Will H. Towles
Edition / Year: 
1925

A gentleman portrayed, whose telltale leer betrays him.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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