Things I’ve Found in Used Books
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
Follow-up to Lost and Found from 2022.
A dot matrix printout from 1989.A handwritten letter a woman wrote to her mother apologizing for her temper.A bookmark advertising the release of the 2000 film, Battlefield Earth.A wallet-sized, Autumn-themed studio photo of an adult man in a sweater vest with his small dog.A card inside a book about the American Civil War that reads “Congratulations and best wishes on your term as Commander-in-Chief.”A newspaper obituary for the author of the book that I was holding.A $3.00 receipt from a bookstore in South Bend, Indiana from February 1967 that’s been inserted in the book for so long that it’s permanently stained the pages around it with its outline.Another apology.A postcard.Post-Its.A 1995 letter from the Ford Foundation about women in China.The tattered remains of the book jacket from many years ago.
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