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To Mark
Let the poetic sound of
moons and stars invade
your night thoughts to give
you sweet dreams always
for in your dreams lies
the happiness you truly want.
hope you enjoy the book

Michelle

Freshwater Pearls by Adele L. Steiner

Thanks To Jessica.

We always need more to keep this project going.

Please tell all your friends who own, work at, or just love to go to used books stores and books sales.

Here’s how to send us your inscriptions.

-The BIP

All your “xxxxx” books
don’t help you. They only
confuse you! Only you
don’t see it or admit it, but
they do. How else could
you have messed up our
lifes, not listening to your
best friend and partner, not
stopping, until it was too late!

Transcendental Meditation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Science of Creative Intelligence by Jack Forem

Thank you to Jake Hill.

For Elise -

Who is most herself
When she’s pixie – or she’s elf;
And most sober-earnest seems
When she’s most bemused in dreams.
Sober elf and pixie dreamer!
Greeting from a fellow-schemer.

S.

January 1943

A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

Thank you to Erin Adams of the Freed-Hardeman University Archives & Special Collections. She says, “I purchased this copy of A Shropshire Lad at a junk store. I think I paid $8 for it. I bought it for the inscription, and I wish I knew who S was. Love the website!”

I do hereby authorize
the dropping of a bomb on
Darlington School and its
premises in Rome, Ga., U.S.A.

John Pehler,
future leader
of the World

A Concise Treasure of Great Poems, edited by Louis Untermeyer

Thank you to Aaron Brame, who says, “The writer of the inscription was named John Steven Pehler, and he died in 2006. (And he wrote his note on “Fern Hill,” by Dylan Thomas, which makes it even more remarkable.) If you would like to learn more about this inscription, please check out my blog.”

EXPLORING FARTS OF THE WORLD

Exploring the Age of Dinosaurs by David Lambert

Found at A Castle of Books.

Your whale collection would be incomplete without this book,

Merry Christmas!
Mom & Dad

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

‘93

Dear Brian,

We have entered a new era of safe sex.

May this book continue to stimulate & excite you, but remember the safest sex is always going to be with me!!

I love you very much,
Leah

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World by N.E. Thing Enterprises

Thanks to Saskia Ericson of Melbourne Australia, who says, “I found this inscription (spookily enough) in a Magic Eye book at my 4-year old son’s Playgroup Library. Love the saucy cherries next to Leah’s signature. I wonder where Brian and Leah are now…”

With the earnest hope–indeed, prayer–that your headlong rush into pride and pretension will be checked by your equally headlong devotion to X, and that your personality will move towards fulfillment.

-Dick

P.S.
I didn’t intend to wait till I got mad at you to give you these. But it does seem like an appropriate time!

The Future of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thank you to Elizabeth.

WARNING:

THIS BOOK IS NOT TOO BE TRADED, LOST, SOLD, EXCHANGED OR USED IN ANY WAY–WHATSOEVER–WHICH MAY DAMAGE OR DIRTY IT. IN OTHER WORDS–HOLD BACK YOUR BARBARIC MANNERISMS AND HABITS AND DON’T TREAT THIS AS YOU WOULD ALL YOUR OTHER BOOKS.
(AREN’T YOU SCARED BY THIS WARNING?)

Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx brothers by Joe Adamson

Found at A Castle of Books.

Dear Nydia,

“I met you in my dreams long time ago, in this book you will meet yourself.
With a tender kiss on your little hand from,

B.

Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Thank you to Juan C. Reyes, who bought this book at a used book shop in Bogotá, Colombia in July 2010 and says, “I found your website a few months past and I instantly fell in love with the project. It surprised me not to find more entries, so I’m sending the first of mine. I love browsing books in the center of town here in Bogotá which are covered from wall to wall with all kind of finds. Most are in Spanish, but every now and then I find one in another language.”