Ha! Me too! I asked a librarian at my university to fetch me "whatever they had on Perl" (this was my first incursion into the interpreted language world) and the librarian came back to me with this. Imagine my surprise when I started reading the book over the weekend (only then I noticed the title said 'Pearls' not 'Perl').

Forward 10 years, I have a copy in my bookshelf and read a chapter every now and then just to keep myself real. I've completely (and happily) forgotten everything about Perl though.