Things you find written in used books.

[wonki wonki]

This was from a few months back. I found two copies of Bach Reader at a local bookstore while browsing around. It's a collection of contemporary accounts of J. S. Bach, his letters, etc. First source stuff. Anyway, in one of the copies was inscribed:

"Dear _____, Are you doing well? I hope it doesn't have to come down to you selling the piano. Take care. Love, Mom."

I bought the other copy.

[fmstlr]

This thread is Found Magazine mutated.

La terre, le ciel, la mer

This page is too small to send you thanks as big as they should be for all you've done for Christine. But, why this book?
It tells the story of a small town [nearly a village] of Normandy, on the seaside: Saint Pair sur Mer. In this town there is a house you can see on page 96c. Chantal's grand-mother bought it in 1964. We got engaged in it and in the little chapel [Sainte Anne] which is just in front of the house in 1965. Since then we've often been there for holidays.
We bought this house from Mrs. Benier and her sister last year and since we are in it as often as possible[holiday, weekends]. We love that place, it's out Far-West, and it's a little bit of our life that we want to send you with this book.
Best love from Chantal, Paddy, Christine, Sibylle, Sandrine, Virginie.

[Swordsman]

Originally posted by Iago
Ex libris copy of an art book: Keith Haring's signature on the checkout card.

Nice!

[Asharak]

"GOSSAMER OH GOSSAMER!" scrawled in a Literature book ten years ago.

[randall fairbrook]

bump

['jim]

In my copy of Zen at War, there is a large passage highlighted and they wrote "FUCKED" at the top of the page.

& I paid $30 bucks for this, a paperback copy..

[likeothers]

recently, i was flipping through an old text book of mine and found this note on top of one page which some girl must have clandestinely wrote.

"This is your P______ C_____________ book and this is my number, S____ ###-###-####"

too bad i never noticed it. her penmenship was poor though. maybe it was good thing i never noticed.

[Eric Nakamura]

My friend bought an old book that was in German. The book was perhaps 80 years old, maybe more. And there was a one page written item in it, that was academia related, and he read it and figured out that the professor who owned the book was a Nazi professor. Too bad I couldn't read it, but he showed it to me.

[atomicscissors]

Anybody go to John Burroughs MS in Hollywood? In junior-high I loved drawing hairy vaginas in dictionaries. Anybody find any of 'em?

[shawgirl74]

Not a book, but a CD booklet I bought at Amoeba a few years ago... I bought a used Tuvan throat singing CD with a considerable booklet included. Inside it were a few Post-Its of things to remember, as if someone were doing research. The notes were about Paul Pena and it was really interesting to wonder who in the hell was into it that much, and if I knew the person through my work.

[nagasawa]

A few years ago I bought a bibliography of Japanese literature on eBay that was annotated like crazy in a tiny, almost mechanical script. Even the endpapers had intricate time lines of Japanese authors going back to the Heian era. I thought it was too detailed to have been a casual student's old book.

I contacted the seller and he told me that he bought the estate of Nancy Andrew, translator of many Japanese authors, most notably Murakami Ryu's Almost Transparent Blue. She was dying and she sold all her books to this bookseller before she went to Japan to die. I bought several more of her former books and I treasure all of them.

[ja.net]

^ that's a wonderful find

[nagasawa]

Heh, heh. I found a paperback today with this notation,

Harold, don't forget the grapes!

along with this cute little guy.

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/fourteen/cute.JPG

I don't know if this is Harold or not...

[yamchild]

in the copy of finnegans wake that i bought for one dollar i found an unused henri rousseau postcard. :)

[evillilgirl]

opening page of freedom from the known
krishnamurti
fundamentalist vs special interest groups formedfrom demographics prepared individual

messy pen ink::

right-obligation-american spirits

dreier-the role of law
fear leads to escape
celebrating the individual in general speech
out from centre
start with every individual vs start with the individual
we are totally responsible for the state of the world vs
normally we thrive on blaming others
which is a form of self pity

i have no idea where this book came from or the person who owned it before..

[evillilgirl]

we should scan the books in alot of the ones i have are pretty hard to read.

[fightgenie]

Originally posted by nagasawa
Heh, heh. I found a paperback today with this notation,

Harold, don't forget the grapes!

along with this cute little guy.

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/fourteen/cute.JPG

I don't know if this is Harold or not...
that is awesome!:)

[nagasawa]

Okay, this is just a hoot. Found in an early 19th c. hymn book.

I think this is the hair tonic you wish: One-half dram sulphate of quinine, 2 drams tincture cantharides, 2 ounces alcohol, 1-2 ounces glycerin, 12 drops oil of anise, 8 ounces witch hazel

Anyone care to try this homemade pomade?

[SDP]

^^ Is that from "There is a Balm in Gilead?"

[yamchild]

well shit, let me jot that down for my next visit to the apothecary to pick up some lead powder.

[Olene]

^haha :)

[nagasawa]

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/four/map.JPG

:confused:


Treasure map?

[randall fairbrook]

i think it has something to do with an OuLiPo n+7 translation of a bixnood tonal space map



or something...

[nagasawa]

:o

[liquid mass]

Originally posted by nagasawa
http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/four/map.JPG

:confused:


Treasure map?

It's clearly GWB's diagrams outlining the attack on Washington (upper left hand corner) and the twin towers (post attack) (inset at the lower left hand). Also, it shows Saddam snickering at the bottom right hand of the page, which is where a lot of americans probably think Iraq is. Off the coast of South America.

[sanjay]

Originally posted by nagasawa
Okay, this is just a hoot. Found in an early 19th c. hymn book.

I think this is the hair tonic you wish: One-half dram sulphate of quinine, 2 drams tincture cantharides, 2 ounces alcohol, 1-2 ounces glycerin, 12 drops oil of anise, 8 ounces witch hazel

Anyone care to try this homemade pomade?

THIS IS THE RECIPE FOR A SEX POTION!!

http://locus1.com/fdr/aph/ingcantharides.htm

[SDP]

Originally posted by nagasawa
http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/four/map.JPG

:confused:


Treasure map?


OK, now that I look at it, this is obviously a crude geological map of the US. Note how Baja California is sliding upwards. In the upper right are Pacific Northwest volcanoes; The bottom diagram of the rectangle sliding over the curve is classic subduction. Any complaints? No? I officially rule.

[nagasawa]

Originally posted by sanjay


THIS IS THE RECIPE FOR A SEX POTION!!

http://locus1.com/fdr/aph/ingcantharides.htm

In 1752 a Frenchman was prescribed 2 drams of cantharides for a fever and in the next two months bedded his wife at least 87 times. Another man with a similar prescription "knew his wife", as the Bible puts it, 40 times in one night.

That's hot.

[SDP]

Originally posted by nagasawa


In 1752 a Frenchman was prescribed 2 drams of cantharides for a fever and in the next two months bedded his wife at least 87 times. Another man with a similar prescription "knew his wife", as the Bible puts it, 40 times in one night.

That's hot.

Not for the wives, it's not.

[nagasawa]

Originally posted by SDP


OK, now that I look at it, this is obviously a crude geological map of the US. Note how Baja California is sliding upwards. In the upper right are Pacific Northwest volcanoes; The bottom diagram of the rectangle sliding over the curve is classic subduction. Any complaints? No? I officially rule.

Okay Mr. Smartypants, then what the hell is this?! It looks like some kind of planet hurtling toward our beloved nation. Is that it's astronomical location?

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/four/mapdetail.JPG

[SDP]

Could be a top-down view of a volcanic cone...

[puppy fields]

looks like a compass

[puppy fields]

... (http://www.tomashoffman.com/academics/semiotics/pictures/droodles/droodle1.html)

[nagasawa]

Okay, not written but found in a used book. I'm getting good at finding old school pictures.

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/sixteen/cute2.JPG

Nice bangs...

[zakkusan]

I found a newspaper clipping that says: SOROPTOMISTS TO VISIT CHICAGO

[nagasawa]

Found written inside My Wife Maria Callas

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/twoone/callas.JPG

[shawgirl74]

oh my god, that is a treasure

[nagasawa]

A treasure fit for my collection!

[Iago]

Ha!

[herrokitty]

i miss the hand written word.

[nagasawa]

Apparently Ol' Dirty is no fan of the Twain.

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/six/eve.JPG

[nagasawa]

No...is that your cousin? Found in a book I swear!

[wonki wonki]

Man, forgot all about this thread. Funny stuff, nagasawa!

[shawgirl74]

Originally posted by Tadao


That picture looks so fucking familiar...

are you in SoCal?

I bet everyone "knows" that kid or knows someone he looks like. I thought the same thing you did, hahaha.

[utinni2]

Originally posted by nagasawa


Okay Mr. Smartypants, then what the hell is this?! It looks like some kind of planet hurtling toward our beloved nation. Is that it's astronomical location?

http://www.frogtownbooks.com/ebay/four/mapdetail.JPG


um are those numbers hexidecimal?

so: 28.13 and 28.12?

[SDP]

It could be a compass...

[itR]

This guy called 'Index' took it upon himself to list the entire contents of my textbook in the last few pages. What gives? :S

[nagasawa]

I've spent a lot of time boxing books lately and giving most everything a quick thumb. I'm famous for using past lover's notes, letters, jottings, scribbled foolscap, what have you for bookmarks and the last few days of packing have amounted to one hell of a rollercoaster ride of messy breakups and lost dreams. Mostly enjoyable reminiscences through this life I've led.

[kimchi_girl]

I saw this written with a fountain pen on the inside cover of an old copy of "Wuthering Heights" I bought a while back.

"My Dear Margaret,
I have read this book and thought it excellent. I hope you will enjoy it too"
With all my love,
Henry
November 11, 1943"

[mwt.]

Originally posted by kimchi_girl
I saw this written with a fountain pen on the inside cover of an old copy of "Wuthering Heights" I bought a while back.

"My Dear Margaret,
I have read this book and thought it excellent. I hope you will enjoy it too"
With all my love,
Henry
November 11, 1943"

For some reason, that would have been funny if it were dated "1996" or something.

[nagasawa]

Revised final draft of Julius Caesar (MGM, 1953) inscribed by the screenwriter and director Joseph Mankiewicz, "To John, How the HELL did you get my home address?! Joseph L. Mankiewicz."

[nagasawa]

*small typewritten letter found midway in a book of modern dance, Ex Libris American choreographer Jack Cole. I like her sense of humor.

"Dear Jack & David,

I've been living in San Francisco, and that is why you have not seen me, in case you didn't notice.

I will be in Los Angeles on the 25th, and will call you on the phone. (Fair warning.)

You may think this is ridiculous, but I love you as much as ever. I miss you.

I have a respectable job in this enchanted city. I am cutting and pasting things on dummies, under the title of Associate Editor.

I have neither taken the veil, nor have I slipped on a slope of the Sierras and been lost to all, nor any of those things.

I wrote this one on a small paper so when you chew it up it won't disagree.

I haven't laughed since the letter David sent me in '49.

I have a lot to tell you, she said.

I want to see you, she said evenly.

Batten down the hatches, she's coming through.

Love, Diane"

[herrokitty]

I miss the hand written word.

[randall fairbrook]

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAMUEL-BECKETT-EDWARD-GOREY-SIGNED-1ST-ED-ONE-OF-350_W0QQitemZ390152726723QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5ad6ea28c3

nice