Turns out he was uncomfortably close to where I was sitting at the time actually. I'll hopefully never know how close the thing actually got to me.
When I discovered it though I was too scared at first to even get close enough to catch it in a cup, and when I tried to it reared up and... >_< looked at me so freaky!
My first choice was recipe card and a glass actually, but in my fright I judged the card neither large enough nor sturdy enough so I found the cookbook.
I was so scared by this tiny spider though (no more than an inch big) that I tried coaxing it aloud...asking it to move to a flatter, less cornery place where I could catch it easier. Can you imagine?
But eventually it did, I finally got the nerve to spring the trap, it crawled up the glass as planned, and I slipped the book cleanly underneath no problem. *huge sigh of relief on my part*
The spider likely suffered it's fair share of fright too... I had to hurriedly finagle two doors open and shut with no hands, and by the time I could get outside he was running circles around the rim if the upturned glass trying to get out.