Strange things you found on used books

I once found an envelope with hairs inside. It made me feel so uncomfortable that I threw the envelope out the window. It landed on a neighbour's balcony though.

aw come on, man! that was someone's only chance to ever clone their ex's daughter...

My fave is when they have little messages written at the front.
'To Anita
This book made me think of you.
Lots of love
Jim
17 November 1971'

>writing in books

im redpilled

>$20-$50 for 200~ page novels.
Not today, merchant.

...

Suspiciously curly hairs in a copy of Beowulf.

I love when I buy difficult to read books and they have notes and highlighting in the first 20 pages that then disappear. It shows that I managed to finish a book some brainlet gave up on

I have a second hand copy of the vocal score for "Carmina burana", bought about 10 years ago. In the back are two pages of manuscript lyrics for a song about Cleveland, mentioning Mayor Ralph Perk (served 1972-77).

my English paperback copy of Being and Nothingness has a huge "Happy 40th birthday!! Enjoy the philosophy!" written on inside front cover and it's marked as 1990.

I also have a copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn with some long message in German written from 1974.

I've also found a train ticket from Wales from the 90's in a book, i forget what book it was.

These were all bought in Canada btw

on the last page of a book on alternative sciences.
A dried 4-leaf cloverleaf, an old ticket to a dancing lesson and a picture of some palace.

Forgot to mention that I bought the book in Virginia.

Airline ticket stub

I own a pretty old copy of Gitanjali and on the inside of the front cover is a message that says "From the Library of [forgot his name and I'm not at home to go look for my book atm]." It wouldn't be that strange except that the message is a stamp instead of handwritten, so some dude out there had a stamp made so he could put this on all of his books. I think it's kind of neat, anyways.

I found a Christmas letter inside a book.
From a Sara to a Russell, lovingly referred to as "My Russell muscle."
The letter is from 1996.
The last sentence:
"I'm just sitting in Couiha? right now in a silk white body stocking, my hair in buns w/ribbons, and angel wings on my back - with no place to go".

Don't you wish you were here. HA HA -

This madman right here gave a 15 year old girl a copy of The Painted Bird

I like this thread.

I found on a used copy of Neruda's 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair a message of departure from a professor to his girl student. I wonder how and why it ended there

Did they bang

or they realized that taking all those notes was a waste of energy

I found a similar ticket (between Brussels and Town called Namur) in a copy of the Discours de la Méthode I bought in a secondhand bookstore in brussels. The Ticket had page and line numbers scribbled all over it, as well as small citations from the book. There was also a post-it note with an ugly schematic of the "pinneal gland" which made me top kek.

a receipt for a human kidney i knew i shouldn't have bought used books

I've got a book somewhere with a message from some Asian guy who is profusely thanking some Dutch guy for reconciling him with Jesus.
It ends with him saying the cancer has fully spread and he won't have long to live.

god damn

Where the fuck are you buying books you dumb cuckold?

this

An invoice in chinese for a container of sex toys

*makes the sign of the Cross*

damn.....

Like this at all? Just got a used copy of Sharon olds the gold cell and here this was

>has to write his name on ex libris
>not having a personalised ex libris with your name
what a fucking pleb, burn that book

A review copy slip telling you where to send in your book review
A dead bug
A receipt from the 1970s
A long strand of red hair
A stamp for the Marx Memorial Library International Brigade Archives
Girlish notes criticizing certain passages for sexism

Got a spanish language edition of Albert Camus complete works from a thrift store. Someone wrote on the flyleaf in spanish about where she bought the book, and its 22 year journey to the hands of the original recipient.
>I'm also 22

It also had some dried flowers marking the section "la peste" (the plague) which is a very good book.

I live in flyoverland so there aren't any secondhand bookstores.

Found a flattened cockroach in a book once. The quitter had only made it halfway through.

what kind of bug?

A "program card"
It's like a punchcard but with no holes,only numbers.

My intaglio professor told me he'd refuse ex-libris commissions all the time if the clients want their names on them

I found an old receipt for curtains in a Maugham book once. I'll post a pic if I can find it.

So about 70 years ago someone bought 4 curtains for $1.44 each, and shoved the receipt into a copy of The Razor's Edge published by Blakiston Company, Philadelphia. The cashier was apparently someone by the name of Pelnar.

I like this too. It always makes me wonder if these people are still alive and what they're up to now.

>not writing love notes to your waifu in books before you exchange them for others at the used book store
>not endlessly filling their stock with books that contain love notes to your waifu
I've already gone through a quarter of their little classics section.

I've got a copy of War and Peace that's from a dude's girl friend hoping the book keeps him busy while he's out of the country(It was more romantic than that but I didnt wanna copy paste it out)
And another from The Assassination of Fred Hampton about how a grandmother bought the book and got it signed to give to her grand children, judging from the card it came with, I'd say this was from New York in 2009
It's interesting to see books that have some history behind them

jej

I found a bomb ass recipe for blueberry corn muffins in a library book. The muffins came out perfect. Exciting, I know.

Fuck that sounds like a gem

Found someone underscoring certain phrases in Anthem. I guess they took Ayn Rand quite seriously. Thank god it was in pencil cause I would've been triggered if it was in pen.

I found some pubes and snot.

I've found airline boarding passes for random people before. It's weird because it's happened more than once. I guess they were using them as bookmarks.

One of them was for an international flight between Australia and England or something, I can't remember. It was just places I've not been.

I then used them as bookmarks also.

Never found anything, except some scribbling on the margins.
And stains. Coffee. Maybe tea?

I found this photo of a child in a copy of Kitchen Confidential
Now its up on my fridge
When people ask I say its of a friend who looks similar

It's quite a coincidence to see this thread today. I just went to the library and checked out a copy of Goethe's "Young Werther". Inside of it there was this envelope.

The website there is www.lacentral.com (a Spanish bookstore, apparently). The thing is the book is in Portuguese, edited by a Brazilian publisher (Martins Fontes), so I see no reason for it to be there. Also, the book has never been checked out before.

Next post I'll show the actual postcard.

boogers and unidentified stains

What's so bad about The Painted Bird?

>teaching 15 year old girls that plagiarism is a good thing
He's corrupting the youth.

top kek

Care to share the recipe, user?

What's it plagiarized from?

How dare you write letters to my waifu, you son of a bitch.

I lost it. But due to the amount of butter it called for, I'm certain it was a Paula Deen recipe.

massive rape depictions, including young girls
murder, zoophilia and lots of disturbing shit

kek.

There should be books where recipes are listed. Like, a book about cooking.

a MoMa ticket, a rolling paper and some bookmarks

When was the MoMa ticket for?

>Roberts Fisk's age of the warrior, signed by the author
>A receipt for a tin of tomato sauce
>Not a book but a model aircraft kit (Academy TBF avenger) I purchased unstarted but secondhand contained some research about RNZAF units that used it and what squadron codes they had. I was planing to finish it in an RNZAF scheme as a silent tribute.

Suicide note that was stained but ripped up so apparently he didnt go through with it lol, found it in my diary

food crumbs, a lot of them.
from a flaky pastry,
most likely a croissant.fucking plebs

>massive rape depictions, including young girls
>murder, zoophilia and lots of disturbing shit
Sold.
I from sffg but added it to my list. I enjoyed Lolita, hogg and de sade, so this should be a piece of cake.

>Not a book but a model aircraft kit (Academy TBF avenger) I purchased unstarted but secondhand contained some research about RNZAF units that used it and what squadron codes they had. I was planing to finish it in an RNZAF scheme as a silent tribute.
Why is nothing I write as touching as this?

I write crappy horror about my nightmares

I found a note saying that the book was a birthday gift to someone. It wasn't dated, but the book was from the nineteenth century and the writing certainly looked from that period. Kinda neat.

>bringing silver fish ridden books into your home on purpose to infect your other books

>I also have a copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn with some long message in German written from 1974.
post it my man

>Girlish notes criticizing certain passages for sexism
this in every used philosophy book/classic i buy

I've bought several used books with pretty long inscriptions in them. I remember one from a copy of The Master & Margherita that was written by this girl to her grandfather who was just getting over surgery/illness or something.

This thread made me think
What would be good to put on a ex libris? i want people to wonder who was the previous owner when i die, even is just a passing moment of "what a pretentious faggot"

>I've got a copy of War and Peace that's from a dude's girl friend hoping the book keeps him busy while he's out of the country(It was more romantic than that but I didnt wanna copy paste it out)
post it my man

It's Dutch, you absolute turd.

>Dear Julian,
>Thought this would keep you occupied during those long, cold, lonely nights overseas, for now.
>Stay safe and come back soon so I can be with you, love Shelly

Also the -y in Shelly is in cursive and curves into a heart
Wonder what made him sell the book

I've got a copy of The Plague where every page is covered in notes and annotations. I almost bought a copy of On the Genealogy of Morality, though it also was covered in notes and annotations, instead of being insightful and academic, the person would just write shit like "yikes" or other passive aggressive shit to passages they disagreed with. It was a deal-breaker for me.

Or there's this thing called Google.

you should put the source to that image

Barnes & Noble

how old is it? dude could be dead, they could have broken up, or he could have just sold it/donated b/c life.

>Also the -y in Shelly is in cursive and curves into a heart
cute

Ink on the pen is pretty faded, and this edition's copywrite pages say 1978 and 1982, so it's been some time
Hope they're alright

>difficult to read books
people don't really annotate outside of high school assignments, do they? nothing that is assigned in high school can be too difficult

WAIT. I lied.

Most interesting was in a book I inherited from my grandfather when he died. It was not an inherently interesting book in and of itself. I think it was a dated atlas of New Zealand maybe. But pressed between the pages about halfway through was a dried up little genuine four-leafed clover.

I've been thinking about getting that wee scrap of plant laminated to save it forever.

Pic on the left appears to me as a birth certificate. It's in arabic(?) but has one finnish phrase "born 22.30"

3.550 appears to be the weight of the baby

On the right you see a woman working on a... I don't know what.

These were inside Rudolf Carnap's Meaning and Necessity.

But why though?

I have my name on it,an icon of a book and a line that says "collection"

I found this cipher in The Importance of Bein Ernest... Still yet to crack it