Posted on 05/24/2023 1:00:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
Lossing, who died in 1891, wrote many books on US history, but his books are not all that collectible and can be had for a few bucks from the American Book Exchange.
Somebody’s gotta go back and get a $h*tload of dimes!
Mark
I have one that’s about 45 years overdue and not taking it back cause I don’t want to be on the news
George Washington checked a copy of an English Language translated first edition of Vattel’s Law of Nations out of the New York Public Library early in his first term. Never returned it.
Mount Vernon staff recently bought a replacement first edition and handed it over to the NYPL, no backsies.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/may/20/george-washington-library-book
Thanks Red Badger. Probably some racist tome steeped in the racism of the racist white author. /rimshot
Gavin Newsom plans to levy an overdue charge large enough to balance the California state gov’t budget.
These types of stories show up every so often. I have old books that I bought from library book sales that still have the library information on them. I don’t think most of these books would fall in the “did not return“ category. I think most of them would probably be books that were sold at book sales. I have at least 20 in my collection.
Recently I got from the local Goodwill, a pristine, like new copy of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn that was stamped inside ‘REMOVED FROM THE LIBRARY OF ________ MIDDLE SCHOOL.”
Apparently they don’t like Mark Twain any more...........
Lt. Bookman should marry Ms. DeGroot. It would be a storybook wedding.
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