Pretty Sinister Books

This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived ...

These bits of ephemera are rather remarkable for both being well over 100 years old. Both post card and newspaper story were Left Inside  my...

On rare occasions  I find a letter still in its envelope inside a book. This one dated January 29, 1976 and mailed on Jan 30 of that year wa...

For those among you who were with me from the start of this blog back in 2011 you may recall I had a somewhat regular feature (at one time w...

Today for a change we have a legitimate "Left Inside" find.  I was sort of cheating for the past couple of months using inscriptio...

Let me take you back to those days of old when people actually read books made of paper with words of printed ink.  Book reviewers didn'...

Pandemic boredom led me to amassing about three boxes of books (most of them still not read) and I noticed in reorganizing them and catalogi...

This was left inside my copy of One Man's Muddle by E. Baker Quinn, a 1938 reprint of a book originally published in 1936.  The card it...

I was pleasantly surprised when this bit of pasteboard appeared in the final pages of a 1934 murder mystery I recently finished reading. Bec...

A quick "Left Inside" post here. I found a few business cards in the books I've been reading lately. The card below seems to h...

" All of us had a delightful time and hope that cleaning up the wreckage wasn't too much for you." It's rare that I c...

It's been a very long time since I've found anything inside one of my books.  This one was one of those rare instances that I came a...

Another odd item I've found inside a book is this business reply envelope for a defunct used bookstore in Chicago. Celmer's was run ...

This was left inside a book Joe picked up at one of our many book sale visits. The book, Single Family Home Plans , is a collection of archi...

Here's a postcard advertising a boutique hotel located in Manhattan's posh East Side that was left inside one of the many vintage pa...