Modern (nearly) book curse
Book curses are most often associated with medieval volumes, but I ran across this today in a 1918 tome:
Whoever shall steal this book of knowledge shall graduate in Sing Sing College.
Labels: book curses, random bits
An evolving experiment in blogging about rare books, fine books and fun books, book collecting, book buying and bibliomania...and random musings on [mostly] related subjects...
Book curses are most often associated with medieval volumes, but I ran across this today in a 1918 tome:
Whoever shall steal this book of knowledge shall graduate in Sing Sing College.
Labels: book curses, random bits
2 Comments:
I like "God rot the crook who steals this book."
I have a book somewhere that has the Sing-Sing line, together with "In case of fire, throw this in."
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