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Current Events & Trends | January 21, 2011 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Oddities: Books Bound in Human Skin

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In case any of you missed last night's Oddities on the Discovery Channel, here's a two-minute clip of the segment about a book bound in human skin. "If it's the real thing," says the host, "you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars." Did bookseller Ian Kahn of Lux Mentis get to the bottom of the mystery? Only he can tell us...


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