Flyleaves

You can get the author to write stuff in the front flyleaves and keep them for yourself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can write stuff in the front flyleaves and give them to people as presents. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Published 1753, with several generations of pensive inscriptions in Gothic script on the flyleaves from and to various of my husband's ancestors. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

The flyleaves are meant to look like waves on the Yangtze. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One reader -- call him David G. -- made it through "Infinite Jest" and its 388 endnotes in five days, scribbling notes on the flyleaves as if dropping bread crumbs in a pathless forest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I love the smell of dusty pages, the faded colours of worn bindings, and the mysterious inscriptions so often found on yellowed and slightly foxed flyleaves. ❋ Kittenpie (2006)

Goering also took up the question of the British propaganda leaflets, which he called “laughable flyleaves.” ❋ Nicholson Baker (2008)

In this case a suspicious resemblance to the flyleaves of old books suggests the source from which it was obtained. ❋ Unknown (2006)

These old materials had themselves at some stage been bundled together into several collections of flyleaves and saved in various books which had historical connections with Worcester. ❋ Bls (2007)

William Beckford used idiosyncratically to copy onto the flyleaves of his beautiful little books the passages that he especially enjoyed, sometimes adding cynical remarks of his own; but even that would probably have been too much like regular work for Mr. Bennet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The collation of the notebook is I-XI12 (132 leaves), plus flyleaves front and back (pp. i-ii and 265-6) conjoint with the respective pastedown end-papers, for an original ii+266 pages. ❋ Unknown (2002)

One was by Poe and the other byMerne, and when they were opened the party saw from the flyleaves that GriffithTaylor had owned one and Debenham the other. ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)

I'm good at swapping flyleaves without trace so I could prove the book I'd pinched out of her satchel was mine. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)

But he did recall with startling clarity how, in an idle moment, he had pulled out the desk drawer and there had found the small pile of notes written on flyleaves that had been torn from books, written in a small and crabbed hand, niggardly of space. ❋ Simak, Clifford D., 1904- (1977)

It covers the flyleaves of two Testaments, Bob's and Georgia's. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1955)