June 6, 2026
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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February 2, 2025 5 Comments
It may be that the loss of 146 lives was simply too tragic for postcards. But we have gathered a cabinet-card portrait, a 1980s first day cover, a modern rack card and a hook-and-ladder postcard from 1907 that may well be a fair representation of the Triangle Waist Company fire.