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"Word lessons : a complete speller"
Here we have another occurrence of poetry that was written into a book. These poems, however, were written by a child and are clearly playful, teasing…
"Hans Andersen's story book"
Here we have an unusual book that features an inscription: "A. R. Perkins from his mother on his 9th birthday from his mother" The inscription isn't unusual in itself, from it we learn the child's name and the age he was when he first received the…
"The Jimmy Johns"
Have you ever loved a book so much that you would pass it on to someone else? In this book there are two inscriptions, the first reads "Addie Howe from her friend A. M. Deay November 1877." The following inscription then follows with "Edward Winslow…