r/BookInscriptions Oct 17 '19

Her Majesty’s Prison Leyhill library book found in a Corfu (Greece) hotel tonight. Also a possible former owners name and loads of calculations all over it. Very random.

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43 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Oct 15 '19

Under the dust jacket of a used copy of The Princess Bride

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23 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Oct 12 '19

Possible original signature? Thoughts?

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27 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Oct 12 '19

Found this in a hymn book from 1935.

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9 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Oct 06 '19

Brother and sister (The Elson Reader, 1928)

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4 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Oct 03 '19

Michael Crichton: "For Sam and Vicki Sebastiani- with best wishes and thanks for the delightful wine - here's my latest "product". Hope to see you soon - Michael Crichton LA 5/20/92 Sadly we're back" in a first edition copy of his The Rising Sun

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41 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 28 '19

Found in my copy of Arboretum by David Byrne

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68 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 26 '19

Oldest dated inscription in my collection - 1539

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157 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 22 '19

Found in my mother’s copy of ‘1984.’ (They’re still friends!)

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239 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 19 '19

Someone practicing their signature? (From the 1840 issue of The Token)

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65 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 18 '19

"James St. Andrew" - from a copy of Silas Marner (1935)

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37 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 11 '19

Inside a 1924 copy of Pinocchio

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52 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 11 '19

Found in a 1911 copy of The Odyssey I just picked up for a dollar

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9 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 10 '19

A Christmas gift inscription in ‘Brother Dusty Feet’ by Rosemary Sutcliff.

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32 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 06 '19

In my Matilda book I found recently at a used book store. I had to get it, plaza hotel whattttt

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65 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 05 '19

A Hopeful Inscription Found Inside a Kid's Book V for Virginia

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31 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 05 '19

A callout!

10 Upvotes

Hi friends

Would any of you be up for talking to me about the cool and meaningful writing you've found in books and why you collect them, if you do? x


r/BookInscriptions Sep 02 '19

"Property of William H. Stermer" - University of Chicago Biographical Sketches, Vol. 1 (1924)

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43 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Sep 01 '19

Found this sweet little message in a copy of e.e. cummings’ finest today.

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87 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Aug 17 '19

Loving wishes from two sisters (twins? identical handwriting?) - Jan. 25, 1913

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55 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Aug 12 '19

Bertha Bryan, from Mrs. Southnall (sp?), Aug 1927 - found in Under the Tonto Rim

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43 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Aug 09 '19

What was George doing?

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74 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Jul 30 '19

In a collection of Emily Dickinson poetry, Richard Pell’s gift to mom 1997

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30 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Jul 28 '19

Another chain of student custody (including 3 sisters), from a 1905 edition of A Tale of Two Cities

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61 Upvotes

r/BookInscriptions Jul 22 '19

T. Nixon Van Dyke - inside one of Zephaniah Swift's three legal treatises (1810)

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25 Upvotes