I noticed from the flyleaf of Peter Duck that the author had written others, and my method of searching for these books had a sort of dim pathos about it; I simply went around picking up any book I saw lying about to see if it was called Swallows and Amazons.
The Lutheran Bible in effect created the German language, and the exhibition includes a copy of the 1541 version, signed by Luther and with his transcription of the 23rd Psalm on the flyleaf.
And the flyleaf leads the reader to anticipate a plot line that simply doesn't materialise.
Dad wrote his name on the flyleaf and then added the words "Who lived through it".
The book, "Ariel," by Sylvia Plath, had long, drizzly buckskin-brown stains running down it, and in an inscription on the flyleaf Hughes identified the stains as "thatch-drip" from a house in Devon that he and Plath had lived in.
Among the books in the four boxes that were not written by James or Wharton was a little book, from 1884, called "Bibliothèque de la reine Marie-Antoinette," whose flyleaf thrillingly bore the faded signature of Edmond de Goncourt.
A notation on the flyleaf stated that the number of pages was ninety-two.
The Gaelic scholar J. F. Campbell, writing in 1883 on the flyleaf of a copy now in the National Library of Scotland, was convinced: "A sample of language which I believe to be genuine".
Adina and Ben grimly reported that a signed copy of J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace," worth four hundred dollars, had just been sold — had had to be sold — for the "$1" written on its flyleaf.
Their name was everywhere in the attic; on the backs of photographs, in the flyleaf of books, underneath chair seats.
It was a children's book, first given to my father, according to a faded flyleaf inscription, by two aunts who had bought it in Honolulu in 1939.
