Found in Books 1. A Grace James Connection
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callmemadamOn Cornflower Books recently there was a link to this site: Forgotten Bookmarks. The writer of Forgotten Bookmarks has the advantage of being a dealer who acquires hundreds of books. I don’t buy so many but even so have amassed a small collection of items people have left behind in books. Now I'm going to start sharing them.
I was particularly pleased with this postcard, which was inside one of the John & Mary books by Grace James. It’s dated 1947 and is postmarked Newbury, near to where the fictional John & Mary lived. As if that weren’t enough, it’s addressed to ‘Master John’.
Turn it over and you have a Mabel Lucy Attwell picture. This was obviously carefully chosen, as the writer of the card hopes ‘the onion seed’ will grow for John. What a fascinating glimpse into someone’s life. I do hope John enjoyed the book.
I was particularly pleased with this postcard, which was inside one of the John & Mary books by Grace James. It’s dated 1947 and is postmarked Newbury, near to where the fictional John & Mary lived. As if that weren’t enough, it’s addressed to ‘Master John’.
Turn it over and you have a Mabel Lucy Attwell picture. This was obviously carefully chosen, as the writer of the card hopes ‘the onion seed’ will grow for John. What a fascinating glimpse into someone’s life. I do hope John enjoyed the book.
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:32 am (UTC)I suppose a lot of people wrote like that ... but I felt a familiar shiver when I saw it. How lovely.
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Date: 2010-09-01 02:21 pm (UTC)I like prize plates and also inscriptions in old books. You feel connected to the person who had the book before and wonder who they were.
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Date: 2010-09-01 01:43 pm (UTC)Once on a visit to the library my mum and I, a budding stamp collector, found a sheet of the then newly released 1969 Dick Bruna special stamps for children in a book. We borrowed the book and the sheet was mine. I probably should have felt guilty but I'm afraid I didn't. Finders, keepers!
ETA: http://pics.livejournal.com/_lethe_/pic/0005cc9y/
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