Pictionary
Why people are paying $2,600 for a dictionary with no definitions.
IT HAS THE name Webster's on the cover, and the impressive binding of a traditional dictionary, but there aren't any definitions inside - only pages and pages of illustrations, detailed black-and-white engravings of birds, plants, architectural elements, parts of the body, geometric figures, heraldic devices. (Full article: 653 words)
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