Today's book is "The Mechanistic Conception of Life: Biological Essays," copyright 1912 by Jacques Loeb.
Today's book is "Persons & Places: The Background of My Life," by George Santayana, published in 1944 and inscribed by Richard E. Stockwell, 1944. There is a note on the copyright page that the book was published under wartime rationing.
Today's book is Herbert Spencer's book "Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy and Morals," published in 1873. It was inscribed with the name of Andrew Ingraham in 1873. The book is turning brittle, which is a shame but it's still legible.
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