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ISSA'S FOLLIES

San Diego, CA - A 30-year-old book that appears to be bound in human skin has been found on the home of Congressman Darrell Issa… It is not generally known that the congressman has a “rap sheet” from some questionable insurance fraud allegations and other indictments concerning a violent past - it is not known if the burglaries were related to the congressman’s past criminal activities. Detectives were trying to trace its rightful owners and believe it may have been taken from the Issa dwelling.

Much of the text is in branding iron, and it was not uncommon around the time of the California’s heyday’s of the ‘forties and ‘fifties for books to be covered in human skin.

The practice, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries when accounts of murder trials were bound in the killer's skin.

Anatomy books also were sometimes bound in the skin of a dissected cadaver. In World War II, Nazis were accused of using the skin from Holocaust victims to bind books.

In a brief statement, county sheriff’s office said the ledger, which contained branding iron marks, appears up to date, and based upon Issa’s Greek and Sicilian ancestries.

According to reports from the county sheriff’s office explained separately; “The books is made up from his mother’s skin, according to the Issa family tradition.”  

Most people don’t know this about the Issa’s family but they can grow skin at will. A sterile scalpel is used, the mother disrobes; (it takes a two feet by one and half foot rectangle), and tan the skin. It doesn’t bother the mothers; their skin grows back with a matter of minutes… Issa has a library from the family’s skins.

County Sheriff’s office put two photographs of the book on their Web site, but officers were unwilling on Saturday to answer any questions about it, including the book's subject matter.