Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages by Popek, Michael - 2011-11-01

TarcherPerigee, 2011-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Penguin Group / A Perigree book [Published Date: 2011]. Hardcover, 182 pp. First Edition, (with full number line). In very good condition/ no dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated Paper over Boards have light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell? By day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind [his website] forgottenbookmarks, where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store. Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see.