Hidden treasures
The coming week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review features an essay by Henry Alford about the strange and wonderful things we sometimes find in books. And I’m not talking about the stories lying in wait amongst the pages. Alford is focusing on the bizarre and wonderful items that are stored, left behind, forgotten, or hidden inside the dark recesses of books and later discovered by secondhand bookstores. Such finds have included: a Q-tip, a bullet, a baby’s tooth, porn, and 40 $1000 bills, according to information that Alford received from The Wall Street Journal and AbeBooks.com.
I’ve always known that books held the key to a world of new discoveries, but this essay covers something quite different altogether. And quite interesting as well.
