Don’t forget to send us the inscriptions you find.

We always need more to keep this project going.

Please tell all your friends who own, work at, or just love to go to used books stores and books sales.

Here’s how to send us your inscriptions.

-The BIP

All your “xxxxx” books
don’t help you. They only
confuse you! Only you
don’t see it or admit it, but
they do. How else could
you have messed up our
lifes, not listening to your
best friend and partner, not
stopping, until it was too late!

Transcendental Meditation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Science of Creative Intelligence by Jack Forem

Thank you to Jake Hill.

For Elise -

Who is most herself
When she’s pixie – or she’s elf;
And most sober-earnest seems
When she’s most bemused in dreams.
Sober elf and pixie dreamer!
Greeting from a fellow-schemer.

S.

January 1943

A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

Thank you to Erin Adams of the Freed-Hardeman University Archives & Special Collections. She says, “I purchased this copy of A Shropshire Lad at a junk store. I think I paid $8 for it. I bought it for the inscription, and I wish I knew who S was. Love the website!”

I do hereby authorize
the dropping of a bomb on
Darlington School and its
premises in Rome, Ga., U.S.A.

John Pehler,
future leader
of the World

A Concise Treasure of Great Poems, edited by Louis Untermeyer

Thank you to Aaron Brame, who says, “The writer of the inscription was named John Steven Pehler, and he died in 2006. (And he wrote his note on “Fern Hill,” by Dylan Thomas, which makes it even more remarkable.) If you would like to learn more about this inscription, please check out my blog.”

EXPLORING FARTS OF THE WORLD

Exploring the Age of Dinosaurs by David Lambert

Found at A Castle of Books.

Your whale collection would be incomplete without this book,

Merry Christmas!
Mom & Dad

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

‘93

Dear Brian,

We have entered a new era of safe sex.

May this book continue to stimulate & excite you, but remember the safest sex is always going to be with me!!

I love you very much,
Leah

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World by N.E. Thing Enterprises

Thanks to Saskia Ericson of Melbourne Australia, who says, “I found this inscription (spookily enough) in a Magic Eye book at my 4-year old son’s Playgroup Library. Love the saucy cherries next to Leah’s signature. I wonder where Brian and Leah are now…”