December 15, 2025
Tag: used bookshop
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My Bargain Friday AND Bonanza Saturday
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A collector arrives a day early for the Old Dominion Postcard Show. So she browses the local used bookstore and comes across a coverless and battered copy of Alfred Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, for which she pays $2 plus tax. She reads it through and, next day at the show, finds the perfect postcard to illustrate…
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October 2, 2025 2 Comments
Biographies of criminals have ranked high on the list of America’s reading interests, but where they slept is a new twist on hotel (and prison) history. Al Capone slept in hotels and prisons. Postcards record several such sites.