Mark's a friend of mine. I was even his 1st employee when he was a button maker & I was in London in 1988 - broke, as usual. I don't know how much each bk differed from copy to copy but in my copy there's a "dedicated to" list that has all the names in red except mine wch is in light blue - so he obviously customized some of them.

The rubberstamps are organized in categories: "HAD SINCE CHILDHOOD", "CUSTOM MADE", "JAPANESE", "BREAKFAST CEREAL", etc.. As w/ everything I've seen that Mark's made, there's a very particular sensibility at work. The presentation of the images is neatly composed to show everything in full - except for on the cover where the chaos of his correspondent friends is all overlapped. There's plenty of good humor:

"It is because you are one of my closest personal friends that I have taken this special time to write you this warm and extremely personal message" is, of course, ironic in rubberstamp form.

At the end it even says: "FREE PRODUCT UPGRADE RETURN THIS BOOK ANYTIME I'LL UPDATE AND RETURN IT YOU PAY THE POSTAGE" I find that to be a particularly nice touch. ( )