Things Found in Books

There is a great thread at MetaFilter on "Things Found in Books." Unfortunately, new users cannot post comments unless they pay a one-time fee of $5. I'm not going to do that, so I'll just post my comment here:

The best thing I ever found in a book was when I was working at the Henry Ford Museum Research Library in Dearborn, Michigan. I had been tasked with boxing up hundreds of old, dusty, brittle books in a back room for "deaccessioning." One of the volumes was a book of Robert Frost's poetry. Being a fan of Frost, I opened it up and inside the front cover was a hand-written copy of one of my favorite Frost poems, Fire and Ice, signed by Frost himself. Oh yeah, and it was a first edition copy. Nobody was aware that the volume was in our collection.

The second best thing I ever found in a book was a pressed four-leaf clover. It had been a particularly bad day, and when it fell out of the book, I took it as a sign that everything was going to be OK.