48 interesting and unusual items that suggest things could be better, either because the material is driven by some utopian intent or springs from some dreadful circumstance.

28 items related in some way or another to entertainments and amusements. Included is a fine annotated photo album of an amateur baseball player, promotional material relating to two talented armless performers, a nifty image of a patent one-man band, and an ephemeral reminder of the intersection of showmanship, commerce, and apocalyptic thought.

17 interesting and uncommon items relating to sexuality and its associated concerns. Highlights range from an attractive copy of an early (1844/1845) American sex manual and anti-onanism tract, to an early (1884) radical American treatment of divorce, to a curious piece relating to cross-dressing and performance that indirectly influenced the Beats.

39 interesting 18th-20th century items broadly yoked together as exemplars of ardent emotion, whether for spelling reform, anti-trinitarian mania, champion back-lifting, or speech pathology as a species of public performance.

Catalogue 36 is a miscellany of 260 American pamphlets. The material covers a number of this concern's usual topics (American social thought, religion, and miscellaneous literature) though the prominent thread of active disparagement that runs through so much of American pamphlet material led me to organize the catalogue largely along "anti-" lines, with groupings of material ranging from Anti-Baptist, Anti-Catholic and Anti-Comstockery all the way through to Anti-Unitarian and Anti-Vice material.