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Notes in Books thanks Karine for her tireless efforts here and abroad. Karine: you make the world a better place, one obituary at a time. And your chili is delicious!

Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Doubleday.


The spine:

 The clippings, adhered to the back inside pages:

Aside from steering The Princeton Tiger, the University's student-run humor publication, toward profitability almost two decades after F. Scott Fitzgerald helmed the editorial board, Mr. Todd Harris founded Creative Plastics Corporation and owned patent US2813349, a device that molded commercial-grade hard plastics for sundry application, including the referenced black box housing for the Nassau Hall Bicentennial U.S. Postage Stamp. Very neat.

Additional clippings:

 Eightballers? Katie, wtf is this?

 And:

English, dude. Duh!

ferblunjit

The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

The Spine:

The library stamp from the inside cover:

Published in 1965 and checked out four years later. That's a brief shelf life. And the book's still in good shape. I'd question the book's provenance, but hurling an unsubstantiated accusation would be too ironical for my tastes. Blah--Confess, David. Confess! We all know you did it. By "it" we mean it, and by "We" we mean not you.

positive reinforcement

Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke.

Cover:

The note:

To Alex

at "a fortuitous point of time" with immense gratitude, your mom

April 23. 1984.

New York City