funny thing is, i have lost certain things too and it goes to really show how much you want it or identify with it if you find yourself yearning to look it up again. Like 'Maya' was the first of Jostein Gaardner's books that I've read before I learnt of Sophie's Worlds fame. That book was the first impression made of the authors' philosophy & it really stuck with me. The fact that I've somehow lost all my excerpts from that book still nags at me to look it up again, to read it all over again.
I remember Sandman as a highly stylised visual storybook that I came across during the days when I had no patience for reading. I haven't revisited it though.