Book dedications
Wayne Gooderham collects some of the most memorable personal messages found in secondhand books
Dedicated followers: collectors of book inscriptions share their notes
The words left in books by their previous owners can tell intriguing stories – but do they enrich or sour the next reader’s experience?
The secret contents of secondhand books
Book dedications: Lost love
Book dedications: True success
Wayne Gooderham: Inside a Chinese anthology, the most moving dedication I’ve ever read
Book dedications: A revolting spectacle
Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head leaves one reader feeling nothing but revulsion. Maybe there was a little too much in the way of adultery, incest, castration …
Book dedications: obsessions
Wayne Gooderham: The owner of this book was just bananas about bananas ...
Book dedications: Up and down
What goes up must come down – even John Buchan can’t escape the laws of gravity
Book dedications: Love, part two - lust
This week, we’re back with love again – of a pricklier kind
Book dedications: Love, part one - romantic
This week, inevitably, a very heartfelt inscription indeed
Book dedications: Hate
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, how not to win someone’s heart with a book dedication
Book dedications: Selected Modern Short Stories
Anxious thoughts scribbled in the run-up to the second world war
Book dedications: The World of Picasso, from Gayle
Wayne Gooderham: Marking the start of 2012, and kicking off this series in earnest, this week’s theme is new beginnings
The secret histories of secondhand books
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor: From Safei to Dad
