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During his years as the proprietor of a secondhand bookshop in the ancient coastal town of Lewes, England, Michael Bell delighted his patrons with his array of books essential to any serious collector of humor.
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A humorous delight for bibliophiles,
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This review is from: Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety (Hardcover)
Scouts in Bondage is a photographic collection of book covers of titles that have not withstood the test of time. Compiled by a retired British secondhand book seller, this is an amusement for the bibliophile with a taste for the double entendre. It is a very short book with minimal text, highlighting about 45 photos of book covers whose intent was serious at the time but, over time, have developed unintended secondary meanings. Facing these covers is the bibliographic details (Author, title, publisher, date, and size) and occasional excerpts or additional information to add to the amusement.
Being an engineering librarian, I was especially drawn to the technical titles gone wrong such as: The Resistance of Piles to Penetration and Hardening and Tempering Engineers' Tools as well as the illustration of the goddess Hygieia holding a water closet pull chain on the cover of The Modern Plumber and Sanitary Engineer.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Slightly amusing - for about 5 minutes,
By amazonophile "lb" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety (Hardcover)
This is a VERY SHORT book. Each book cover shown takes up 2 pages so there are fewer than 50 examples in the 96 pages. UPS delivered the book at 2:15pm. I opened the package, began looking at the book, and was finished with it well before 2:30.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific book of double entendres,
By laurasbuffy (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety (Hardcover)
A book which will especially delight males who love word-usage that has changed, making language that was reasonable in its time slightly salacious. Most pages are copies of book covers.
Do you like the Three Stooges? How about Monty Python? If you do, you'll love this book!
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