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.”

Martin:

He visto muchas tristezas
en el transcurrir erróneo
de los dias,
y en las noches
a escondidas,
no he contado
todos mis placeres

Valeria
15-05-97

Translation:

Martin:

I have seen much sadness
in the wrongful passage
of days,
and at night
in secret,
I have not told
all my pleasures

Valeria
15-05-97

El morador de las sambras (The Haunter of the Dark), by Howard Lovecraft (H.P. Lovecraft)

Thanks to Ariel, who says, “I found this in a tiny bookstore in Buenos Aires around 2004,
and it always meant a lot to me, because of this beautiful inscription. I’m sorry I couldn’t
get a better picture, but it looks legible enough, I think.”

For a happy, though early,
Xmas, 1945.

To Iz -
This – ’cause I’m sure you will
like it.

Love,
Luc

The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Found in Dogstar Books in Lancaster, March 2010 by Kristin from Ephrata, PA.