Janet Judges Michael?

Maybe.

The inscription in this book conjures up a story of relationship woes. Michael gifted this "rare book" to Janet and implored her not to judge him by his cover because he was as rare as this book. Further, as he could not snuggle with her, perhaps this rare book could.

Apparently, Janet did judge Michael and dumped him and the book his pseudo-snuggle rode in on. The book found a comfortable resting spot on a resale shop bookshelf. Not sure where Michael wound up.

If Janet were an ardent bibliophile and rare book collector, she may have given Michael his walking papers because he didn't know squat about rare books. This anthology of American writing from Westvaco (1982) is certainly not rare and wouldn't have been considered so in 1982. Collectible maybe, as one may collect whatever one chooses. But in no way is this book rare. It does have a handsome cover (slipcase), though. Not that I'm judging.