I ordered this from Amazon.com last week with some money I earned from promoting Calphalon cookware on my blog.

Such a fun book! I really enjoyed looking through this and now want to go through all my old books looking for treasures! I think I'll make an effort to leave a little something behind in the books I pass on---just for fun! In fact, I'll start with this one!

Some of my favorite finds of this book include the photo from Sara Teasdale's father, the very old letters from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the family temperance pledge from 1899. My mom, brother, and I signed a similar pledge around 1988 or so. :)

I'm setting this aside for release in the Books About Things bookbox.

Releasing into the Biographies of Things bookbox.

To the finder of this book:

This book is gift, no strings attached, from me to you. You may keep it forever, pass it along to a friend, or release it into the wild to be found by someone else.

If you are new to BookCrossing, welcome! Enjoy the site, the book, and the BookCrossing community. I hope you'll join us...it's free! If you do, please consider using me, elizardbreath, as your referring member. You can even remain anonymous if you wish!

I hope you'll make a brief journal entry so all the previous and future readers can track this book's journey.

Thanks, and Happy BookCrossing! :)

Taking from the Things bookbox. Thanks.

read and leaving already! Interesting collection. I find things in some used books, but nothing like what this bookseller has found.

A wishlist rabck Enjoy

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it. Then, when you are ready, pass it along for someone else to enjoy! Thanks and happy reading!

NO. WAY! This is a real gift. I'm a compulsive bookmark collector and -have- to match the cover of my current read with a coordinating marker. Whenever I buy a used book, I always hold my breath as I look through, hoping for a forgotten bookmark. Recent finds have been an airplane ticket and a bookstore receipt (which was more fun than you would think because it came from a store about 450 miles away and I've been in it, so can totally picture it). Anyway, I know I'm going to appreciate this book because every found marker is a mini-treasure, even if it's just an old Garfield joke card. :) Thank you!

I was completely charmed by the idea of this book, but just a bit disappointed in the execution. I would have preferred the coffee table book format so the items were bigger, allowing us to try and read the neat old handwriting. Still, I think I'll start following the author's blog so I can see more. I've already found a great new recipe in this book -- what else is waiting to be discovered?

Offered up during Round 5 of booklady331’s Non-fiction VBB

Heading to the post office, on the way to Virginia. Enjoy!

Arrived safe and sound! I'm looking forward to this - while I have plenty of bookmarks (many courtesy of generous Bookcrossers), I do have moments where I don't have one close at hand and use any random thing. It will be fun to see what the author has discovered. Thank you for sharing!

I agree with Moody-Blue that I think this book would have been better in a larger format, since the author does include photos of the items. In short, though, I did enjoy this. The author has obviously selected interesting items from his collection, not all the things he has found. Other books I have read in a similar vein (one on found grocery lists, for example) were not so selective and quickly became tedious. This was a good variety and a pleasant distraction to pick up now and again.

Ooops! That above entry was me. I didn't realize the site had logged me out.

Wishlist book being sent out as a thank-you for extreme generosity. Enjoy! (Counts for the 2017 "Keep Them Moving" challenge.)

Arrived with today's mail. Thanks so much for sending something on from my wish list.

Interesting read. I've found an ultrasound pic in a book. I've also found a lottery scratch ticket in one, and when I scratched it, found that I had won $1.

Sent on as requested from the NonFic VBB.

Another one that looks like something fun and quirky - thanks for sharing!

I find this book hard to rate.

On one hand, it’s small and easy to read. This is a collection of the unusual finds that the author, a used bookseller, has found in the books. There are bookmarks, naturally, but there are also photos, letters, advertisements, receipts, cards, leaves, razor blades (!), and other ephemera. It is collected in a way that also shows us the book that these various found objects were found in. Most of the time there is little, if any, relationship between the book and the bookmark. Yet, there are those times when, whether by accident or intention, the book and bookmark seem destined for each other: a penciled sheet of music in a 1911 Glee and Chorus Book or a Yeats poem “A Prayer for My Daughter” in a 1998 Cutting: Understanding & Overcoming Self-Mutilation or a family portrait found in an 1880 Bible.

But there’s the other hand - these are fascinating bits of history in many ways and we get very little in the way of details. The reproductions of the letters is poor - and I realize that there are usually, but not always, an attempt at a printed transcription (and even there - couldn’t the publisher use a readable font??) . Some of miscellany is too small (less than half a page) to see the details in the advertisement or receipt, while other items like two small 1957 dog tags and the book they were found in merit an entire page. All in all, it just came off as interesting, but very uneven.

Sending in the wishlist tag game - enjoy!

This arrived today, safe and sound. Thank you so much!!

Reserved for wishlist tag game. Will be sent on once it is read.

A quick, enjoyable little read about some of the things people leave in books. The author runs a bookstore with his family and started cataloguing some of his finds. I always enjoy finding ticket stubs and receipts in the used books that I buy so this was interesting read for me.

Sent off as part of the wishlist tag game - enjoy!

Thank you, kaila-ann! I'm looking through this and I know I'll enjoy it

I enjoyed this book, but like Moody-Blue felt as it should have been larger as some of the pictures were really small for my old eyes.
I've found another reader for this courtesy of the wishlist tag game https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/10/558029/
Releasing at the post office today!

I'm sending this to BOOKWORMINUSALL as I've tagged her in the Wishlist Tag Game! Hope you like it!

Like it...I LOVE it...THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for sending me this book I wished for on 6/3/2017, etherea!!! : ) HOW FUN to see how it's travelled between BCers, sadly I've no time to read the entries now. My Mailman, who had already delivered to my home earlier today, pulled up as I was backing out of the driveway and personally handed it to me through my window!!! : ) I'm between more hospital tests (I'm off again in the morning), so I won't have time to really enjoy it, or the two bookmarks & two large round Official BookCrossing Book stickers just yet, but I wanted to make certain to make a Journal Entry and THANK YOU for the DAY BRIGHTENER!!! : D