Word: flyleaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most interesting volume now on display is the only known presentation copy of "Purchas: His Pilgrimes", printed in London in 1624. The meticulous inscription on the flyleaf reads in part: "To...His Mties Sollicitor The Author Samuel Purchas; in thankfull acknowledgement of a Loving friend...
...threw a baseball 384 ft. 1 in., or 39 ft. 1 in. farther than the Osler record. Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison papers of that day published the fact; and before me is a copy of The Colonel's Daughter, a novel by Captain Charles King, on the yellowing flyleaf of which the author-now Brigadier General Charles King the of Milwaukee-penned the following...
...Eldorado, Kan., hurried into a second-hand bookstore. He had heard that the vendor possessed a copy of a work for which he had searched for over 50 years-the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus. Hector paid $2.50, opened his book, beheld his own name on the flyleaf, recognized the volume as one he had lost...