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Plink Plink! Celebrate World Water Day with Vintage Children’s Illustrations circa 1954
Plink Plink! Celebrate World Water Day with Vintage Children’s Illustrations circa 1954

A marvelous mid-century homage to Earth’s lifeblood.

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The Three Astronauts: Umberto Eco’s Lovely Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Space and World Peace
The Three Astronauts: Umberto Eco’s Lovely Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Space and World Peace

An American, a Russian, and a Chinese walk into a semiotic space rocket.

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A Booklover’s Map of Literary Geography circa 1933
A Booklover’s Map of Literary Geography circa 1933

On the Bostoncentricity of literature, or what “our first man of letters” has to do with Poe.

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The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes
The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes

What Peeping Toms have to do with failure and the expectations of genius.

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Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959
Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959

Motoring in Germany, hunting in the USSR, beaching in Portugal, and other adventures.

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Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness
Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness

“…only things that are creative and not destructive… hatred is wasted energy.”

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Film, Film, Film: 1968 Soviet Animated Parody of the Movie Industry
Film, Film, Film: 1968 Soviet Animated Parody of the Movie Industry

A vintage satirical look at cinema’s ego and bureaucracy.

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At the End of the Rainbow: Vintage Film about Ultraviolet Light, 1946
At the End of the Rainbow: Vintage Film about Ultraviolet Light, 1946

In the beginning, there was ultraviolet light.

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Gorgeous Vintage PSA Posters for Reading from the 1930s and 1940s
Gorgeous Vintage PSA Posters for Reading from the 1930s and 1940s

Dickens, Dumas, Austen, Tolstoy, Eliot, Clemens, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Scott.

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The Disappearing Bicyclist: A Chess Champion’s Vintage Puzzle to Tickle Your Brain
The Disappearing Bicyclist: A Chess Champion’s Vintage Puzzle to Tickle Your Brain

“Which boy has vanished? Where did he go?”

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