June 24, 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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July 21, 2021 2 Comments
In 1914, it was on Broadway or later in London’s West End where those in search of entertainment found The Lilac Domino, an operetta in which a royal goes to seek a new young wife with piles of money she had not counted. It all ended well.