Not really, only till receipts and bits of paper used as bookmarks generally.

I do have a lovely leather bookmark which was in the lost property box at a library where I worked. After the three months legal holding period it was given to me, as it was embossed with the letter A.

I bought an old copy of The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Wright at an estate sale once, thinking it might be worth something. It isn't; there are a zillion copies out there, but it had a picture postcard circa 1940 in it of the spa at French Lick, Indiana, that is still a popular (and expensive) place to go.

A squashed bug was the most interesting thing I ever found in a book!

Donna

Yoyobon, I also once found a plane ticket in a book - a book I had purchased at a local charity shop. Interestingly, the ticket was for a flight to China on a Chinese airline. And the book, River Town, was about China. And the author of the book was Peter Hessler, a man who was born and raised in my town, Columbia, Missouri, but has lived most of his adult life in China. I wondered if the book had perhaps previously belonged to himor a member of his family. Although I'm acquainted with a couple of people who know Peter's family, I never tried to find out. It was just a curiosity.

Pressed flowers from the Holy Land, in a book belonging to my great-great grandfather, from c. 1880. He was a NH farm-boy who came south to Massachusetts c. 1840 and "made good" as a shoe manufacturer with his own factory eventually. He traveled widely here and abroad. Wish I could identify the flowers... I find them rather poignant, ephemeral things that have out-lasted my ancestors.

What a great find, Roxanna.

an old postcard, depicting an old brewery . There wasn't any written text

Rouan's and my mother worked as a keypunch operator back in the 1960's. She would bring error cards home and use them for list making or bookmarks. I wonder if anyone ever found one of her punch card bookmarks in a returned library book.

I mostly find receipts and other random bits of paper in books, but I do have a few nice bookmarks and a bunch of postcards from books I have bought second hand, as well as several boarding passes that I have left inside the books.

The most interesting stuff I have found in books has been inside library books. It includes several photographs (which I handed to the librarians) and money (which I kept).

The 2 most interesting things I have found came from the same book. It had been gifted (circa 1950) to one of the libraries that came
together to form the National and University Library of Iceland and had probably not been opened since. Inside were a Blackwell's (bookshop in Oxford) newsletter from (I think) the late 40s and a hand-written letter. I left them both inside.

I found a letter obviously written by a woman whose husband was in the military and she was moving to live with some of her family. It was only a partial letter, so no names or anything like that, but I often wondered how her life turned out.

I found in the middle of a book, purchased from a thrift store, a $30 Macy's gift card that had never been used. No way to find out who it belonged to, so bought a few new tops from the clearance rack.

What a good find!

Not found but left! I had a copy of "Desiree" by Anne-Marie Selinko and put in cuttings from a magazine of publicity shots from the movie with Marlon Brando. I lost a load of books in my travels. I hope someone treasured this one and the cuttings.

Is it time to mention that famous book that we sent around the country years ago....... I still have it and treasure those items you all tucked into it before mailing it on to the next RP'r .

I didn't know if it would get back to me, but after a year , there it was in my mailbox with all your additions stuffed into it.

That was fun to do, back when US postage wasn't sky high.