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The Library Book Sale

The vintage connoisseur is not limited to the collection of old things. The true connoisseur will also collect the stories of old people. When I said I wasn’t sure about taking the time to go to a Friends of the Library book sale last weekend, my eighty-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Boaz, a dependable font of discriminating…

July 16, 2014 in Bargain Hunting, Collecting, Estates, Literary Archaeology, Literary Decor, Uncategorized.

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