Daily Book Graphics #267 / Interpersonal Communication

©1975

Birds and "Birds" / NSFW Thrift Store Treasure

In all my days of thrifting for books I have never come across anything like this. I was sifting through 50 cent books at a thrift store in the suburbs and I spotted a copy of the Golden Guide to Birds, I already own the book and blogged it in DBG #158. When I picked it up I noticed something in between the Eastern Kingbird and the Great Crested Flycatcher. It turned out to be eight photographs of three different women posing in various states of undress. They appear to have been taken in the 1960s although some could be earlier. I wonder how they ended up there, did a husband hide them in a book that he thought his wife would never take off the shelf? Did he put them in a book about birds because in British slang "birds" can mean women? I suppose we will never know.

Hopefully I made this image small enough that no one will be able to recognize their grandmother.

Sorry, I have to protect the identities of these ladies.

Daily Book Graphics #266 / Ogden Nash

©1973

Daily Book Graphics #265 / Systems

©1984 / Design: Bud Jacobs, Type set by Printing Prep Inc. (still in business, they print a lot of my photographs). This catalog was produced by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Info on Francois Morellet here.

Daily Book Graphics #264 / Diet Dynamics

©1971 / Jacket Design: Charles Bartleson

Daily Book Graphics #263 / More Power

©1968 / Design: Bradford/Cout Graphic Design. My friend Tom loaned me this book to scan. I think it's amazing. Unfortunately the interior content doesn't look at all like this.

Daily Book Graphics #262 / Monkeys and Apes

©1966 / Cover illustration: Mel Hunter

Daily Book Graphics #261 / The Crucial Decade

©1960 / Cover Design Ben Shahn. When doing a search for Ben Shahn images, I found this nice 1957 piece depicting shopping carts.

Daily Book Graphics #260 / Shock Proof

©1972 / Jacket Design by Geoffrey Hodgkinson