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This is the rare 1971 first printing of "The Anarchist Cookbook", William Powell's legendary guide to the manufacture of explosives, phone phreaking devices and illicit drugs, writ...
This is the first book expressly designed as a weapon: Uwe Wandrey's "Kampfreime" made for use during the 1968 German Student Movement - palm-sized, with razor-sharp metal boards f...
Most "teach the kids to read" ABC books feature adorable multicolored scenes of childhood innocence and cute farmyard animals. But the editors of this 1963 Slovenian ABC Primer for...
On October 7, 1992, an elderly man named Tevfik Esenç died in Turkey, and with him - on that day - died the Ubykh language. Once spoken by 50 000 people in the northwest Caucusus...
Which European language am I reading? https://t.co/w8QcjJdd40
The Finnish word "kalsarikänni" means “drinking alone, at home, in your underwear”. The Finnish Tourism Agency has released two emojis for the word. https://t.co/TGhW4XST2o
A fragile & ephemeral survival - the 1908 catalogue of a Zagreb antiquarian bookshop: 364 items described, including an extraordinary rarity - the third edition of the Gospels in C...
Henrique Alvim-Corrêa (1876-1910), a Brazilian artist living in Belgium, read HG Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1903 and was so moved by the novel that he began to illustrate the...
This is the "Staircase to Knowledge" at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, leading up to the library building. 1/ https://t.co/qGp0iatROu
"The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." Salman Rushdie https://t.co/S0WPzJ3CPF
THE OLD PRUSSIAN LANGUAGE Die Sprache der alten Preußen an ihren Überresten erläutert. G. H. F. Nesselmann, Berlin 1845. With approximate type-facsimiles of the three extraordinar...
Sometimes a translation is just "right". This is "Hobbin" - The Hobbit in Faroese - translated by Axel Tórgarð, and published by Stiðin, Føroyar, in 1990. The Farœse runes - uniq...