Forgotten Bookmarks: Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages. Hardcover - 2011
by Popek, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
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 www.forgottenbookmarks.com, 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.
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About Books Revisited Minnesota, United States
Books Revisited is an independent bookstore located in central Minnesota. We have two retail stores specializing in used and out of print books. We are obsessed with quality, and go to great lengths to accurately describe the book we offer to our online customers.
Details
- Title Forgotten Bookmarks: Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages.
- Author Popek, Michael
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 182
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher TarcherPerigee, New York
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 280314
- ISBN 9780399537011 / 0399537015
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 6.27 x 0.72 in (21.03 x 15.93 x 1.83 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Lost articles, Antiquarian booksellers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011022731
- Dewey Decimal Code 790.132
Summary
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 www.forgottenbookmarks.com, 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.
