¿What curious objects (cards, letters, photographs) have you found in second.hand books?

Answer 1

Old fashioned book holders
Book ends
Reading glasses
Reading glasses cases
Prayer beads
Old table lamps
Ivory Book marks
Metal book covers
Other peoples notes
Old playing cards
Bartender's measuring cup
Drinking Mugs
Coffee pot holders
Hot plate
Baseball cards
Collection of Erotic paintings
Postcards
Old letters stuck inside books.
Someones last will and testament
A box of new balloons
Candle holders
Bedtime reading desk
There are a lot of other things but I can not remember it now.

Answer 2

I found a dried/pressed 4 leaf clover in a prayer book, from the turn of the century. I left it in the book, in between the pages.

I found money in some really nice leather bound Franklin Mint editions I bought used.

Thats about it.

Answer 3

Lots of things when I used to work in a library. We kept them in a box and displayed them once in a while. Mostly pictures and religious themed bookmarks. Some receipts. The only interesting things were money, and once we found a whole, still in the wrapper, cherry Hostess fruit pie.

Answer 4

articles on science, a candy wrapper with numbers written on it-not phone numbers, just numbers. a german lesson book had the student's journal for the class glued on the back cover. in one-and i wish i had bought it-there was a tree drawn on the inside cover with things hidden in the lines.

Answer 5

Nothing much, an old hand written recipe about 60 years old

Answer 6

movie ticket
shopping list
seagull feather
credit card

Answer 7

condom in a library book.
absolutely true!
I was working as the research librarian at the time.