Always

Senior photo with inscription:

Nancy
Remember all the fun we had in gym and our other classes.
Best of luck to a sweet girl.
Always,
Kathy

Found in "Christy" by Catherine Marshall. Published by Mcgraw-Hill, 1967.

Come Sit A Spell

Photo.

Found in "My Place: An Aborigines Stubborn Quest for Her Truth Heritage and Origins" by Sally Morgan. Published by Seaver/Henry Holt, 1987.

Wagons West

Photo of two wagon racers.

Found in "Photo Craft" by Leslie Linsley and Jon Aron. Published by Delacorte, 1980.

Too Big For My Britches

FB made The Guardian's book blog.
And a million other blog mentions.

Too exciting. Glad to be sharing this great stuff with so many people.

Mr. Runnels Goes To Washington

Baseball card from the 1950s featuring Washington Senator shortstop Pete Runnels.

Found in "The Golden Warrior" by Hope Muntz. Published by Scribners, 1950.

Open Toed Shoes

Today's post comes from author Jan Markley.

From Jan:

I have a friend who loans me books and there are always weird bookmarks left in them. I have her copy of Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh and inside was a sticky note that read: "11 am wear open toed shoes," a scrap of paper with " thievery corporation" scrawled on it, a costco card and a coupon for a manicure.

And The Winner Is...

I'm sure you all just want me to get to the name of the winner, but first things first.

I want you all to know that I tried to be as fair as possible. I copied all 222 comments from the Giveaway post and pasted them into TextPad, which provides me with line numbers. There were 969 total lines.

Next, I went over to Random.org for some number generation. 969 was the max.

Finally, the moment of truth.

Who's #693?

Congrats to pH!

Thank you to all who entered. Some of you already know that I have giveaways on a fairly regular basis, especially though Twitter - so keep an eye out, and good luck next time.

This and That

First of all, hello all you Redditors and Metafilterites. The blog has been making the rounds this weekend, I hope all the new visitors take a nice look around.


As you have noticed, this weekend's giveaway has a record number of comments. I believe we had a contest a few months ago with 20 entries, but this one is well over 100.

Someone pointed me in the direction of an Abebooks post on our favorite subject.

Finally, one of our readers wanted to share one of his own forgotten bookmarks:
Here's the original post on Flickr: Leaf in a Book
The pic for all of you to enjoy:

Giveaway:UPDATE - CONTEST HAS ENDED

UPDATE: Ok, due to the gigantic amount of entries, I will set the deadline for Sunday night, 11:59 EST. Will announce winner at noon EST on Monday. Good luck everyone.



Hey guys - I thought I would throw up a contest for the weekend. Up for grabs is a 1941 Heritage Press edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," complete in one volume. Contains the Tenniel illustrations and comes in a nifty slipcase. Just leave a comment below to let me know you're interested in entering. I'll announce the winner on Monday around noon.

Contest is closed. Thanks to all who entered.

Added Joys

Anniversary telegram, dated Jun 25th, 1938:

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ANNIVERSARY MAY EACH NEW ONE BRING ADDED JOYS. =
GERTRUDE MORGAN

Found in "Lanterns in the Night" by Paul Eldridge. Published by Haldeman-Julius, Girard, Kansas, 1945.

ED: Telegrams are great - can you still send them? Before I die, I'd like to get a telegram.