Things found in used books

I also just bought a copy of janet frame's "faced in the water" which belonged to one Lynn Ramsey. Maybe not the same lynn ramsey, I guess, but maybe.

this is an awesome idea! kind of like a non-destructive joe orton type stunt.

Found printed in the inside cover of a second-hand Genet book. It's the wierd understatement of it that I like.

To SHane
Meet you all the way.
MUCH love,
John

What the hell was that last post about?

A friend of mine used to live in a flat owned by an older male relative, who was hospitalized (and who later died in hospital). All his books and other stuff were still there, and his bookshelf had a lot of books on Christianity, so we thought he must've been quite religious. But then later on my friend found a box that was put in a cupboard or something, and in the box there were some books on homosexuality and some old erotic gay pictures (I think they were from the 70s or older). So he must've felt quite contradicted about himself. All of this made me a bit sad, even though I'd never met this person.

Tuomas have we honestly reached the point where you ask people to explain your own posts to you?

Also, when I was staying at some married friends' house, they let me stay in the same room as the books. So, at midnight I decided to have a rummage. Leafing through the kama-sutra not only were some of the sentences highlighted, but on one page there was a 10 year old polariod of my friends "in the missionary position". I just could not look at them the next day.

― JTS, Friday, August 27, 2004 9:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

OK. It's been nearly 5 years since this misinformation was posted. I can admit that I was probably about 13 when this happened, unlikely to ever be invited to any 'married friends' house', and yes, for 'friends' read 'parents' :(

You were making a "latin ringtone" joke, Tuomas.

i used to put money in books and then not remmeber which book they were in so some australians scored pretty big

a page torn out of an S&M magazine (late 60s-era maybe?) with swastika in backdrop. found in photo book of mycenae.

OK. It's been nearly 5 years since this misinformation was posted. I can admit that I was probably about 13 when this happened, unlikely to ever be invited to any 'married friends' house', and yes, for 'friends' read 'parents' :(

― JTS, Friday, January 23, 2009 2:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaht

Yeah man it set my latency back 5 years. Actually I made the polaroid part up, but the highlighted and annotated sex journal was truth. It's more likely that my mother was studying for an assignment or something on 'Sexual Lust' (it wasn't a kama-sutra at all) at some point during the 80s, but at the time I truly believed that my parents had chosen to store away some 'special passages' for when they might be useful... (shudder)... Sorry to discredit an amusing tale but I did use to lie and embellish quite a lot when I was 16.

You were making a "latin ringtone" joke, Tuomas.

Thanks, I get it now! The post I was answering to being deleted made it kinda hard to decipher.

This thread has jogged something. A possible error. Involving a nude photo and the many books I've donated to the Salvation Army.

i was found a tourist guide book for iraq from the 70s at a second hand book sale, had a postcard inside from an iraqi saying:

"hey, come and visit us some time, we can go and see all the ancient temples and whatnot, check out the book."

sort of depressing.

*once found...

Aw.

I once found a '70s Hustler calendar in my dad's copy of Master Of Reality, but that's a different thread I suppose.

ha that's awesome

When I was 15, I had two summer jobs, one as a dishwasher in my aunt and uncle's restaurant and one at a used bookstore down the street from it. There was this waiter at the restaurant everyone hated-- he had this really snooty air and was a dick to everyone in the kitchen. About halfway through the summer I was going through a bunch of books someone had sold to the bookstore and a bunch of photos fell out of one of them. Pictured was the same waiter, in what looked like a hotel room, in aqua-coloured bikini briefs, looking directly into the camera with the same supercilious pursed-lipped expression he always had when he looked into the kitchen to see if his table's food was out.

Aaand I already posted that story.

the other day, in vol 1. of menzies collection of shang dynasty oracle bones i found a recent issue of penthouse letters. zzzz.

i bought a second hand copy of sonic youth's goo, and inside was a drawing of a joint on tracing paper.

I almost bought a tatty old copy of Alice in Wonderland because the inside cover had "Happy Christmas, Darling, love Mummy and Daddy XXXXXXX" written in it, but I decided that stupidly excessive sentimentalism wasn't a good enough reason. I now regret it. :'(

I got a big box (45 pounds) of 60s Playboys from an Ebay store yesterday. In the auction post, the store mentioned that they hadn't looked through every magazine for defects and whatnot. So because of that I got the unlisted bonus of finding in one of the issues a personalized autographed b&w glossy headshot of Stella Stevens plus a folded pin up of her from a mid-60s issue of Variety (that had an ad for The Naked Prey on the other side).

I have heard it said that people like to stash money in bibles. Seems like a good thing to check out the used bibles in the thrift stores. I haven't ever found any, tho.

best personal find: ticket stub from Graceland

(not a book) but a former co-worker of mine once found a sheet of acid in a used fairport convention LP.

That is crazy

found a NYC ticket stub in a book I got here in Denver

otherwise, never really much aside from coffee stains or things that resemble boogers of a bygone era

lots of bookmarks, a grocery store receipt once with a phone number on the back of it - tried calling it but it was disconnected

oh, and hairs. i'm always reading and wondering where the hell these big long blonde hairs are coming from.

I found a few family photos taped to the blank pages of the hardcover booklet that came with the Dock Boggs CD I bought. there's a (1950s?) polaroid of a young couple standing in front of a fireplace, a polaroid (also '50s?) of two boys and two middle aged ladies on a porch, and a color photo (1980s or '90s?) of a family (mom + dad and four kids) sitting on one side of a kitchen table. there's also a sentimental note from "Ron, Jr." to his brother Bill. all that stuff must've really hurt the resale value of the CD, because I got it for ≈$8 at a time when copies were going for ten times that much on Amazon.

I would've been more impressed if the ppl in the photos were spooky Depression-era southerners. they look pretty normal as far as I can tell.

in a library book I found one of those fake dollar bills with an angel in the place of the dead president and cutesy details like "Jesus Christ paid for all debts, public and private". I was disappointed that it wasn't actual money.

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found inside a copy of 'the man who loved children'

intrigued by the 'international visitors center'

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-04-26/features/9202070006_1_chinese-interpreter-noisettes

I found a few family photos taped to the blank pages of the hardcover booklet that came with the Dock Boggs CD I bought. there's a (1950s?) polaroid of a young couple standing in front of a fireplace, a polaroid (also '50s?) of two boys and two middle aged ladies on a porch, and a color photo (1980s or '90s?) of a family (mom + dad and four kids) sitting on one side of a kitchen table. there's also a sentimental note from "Ron, Jr." to his brother Bill. all that stuff must've really hurt the resale value of the CD, because I got it for ≈$8 at a time when copies were going for ten times that much on Amazon.

― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, February 25, 2011 4:48 PM (5 years ago)

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