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Adam Funk

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May 19, 2009, 4:13:26 PM5/19/09
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1

Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of
Species," one of the most famous books ever written.


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Otto Bahn

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May 19, 2009, 4:22:36 PM5/19/09
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"Adam Funk" <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1
>
> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
> every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
> holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
> Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
> staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
> rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of
> Species," one of the most famous books ever written.

Looks like Mr. Saklad has finally gotten BPL to post stuff
in public!

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Jeffrey Turner

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May 19, 2009, 10:21:55 PM5/19/09
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Adam Funk wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1
>
> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
> every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
> holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
> Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
> staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
> rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of
> Species," one of the most famous books ever written.

What was the fine?

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John S. Wilkins

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May 19, 2009, 10:43:36 PM5/19/09
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Jeffrey Turner <jtu...@localnet.com> wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1
> >
> > Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
> > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
> > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
> > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
> > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
> > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of
> > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
>
> What was the fine?
>

I'm betting it was outweighed by the appreciation in the sale price of
the book...
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But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

Otto Bahn

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May 20, 2009, 10:53:34 AM5/20/09
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"John S. Wilkins" <jo...@wilkins.id.au> wrote

>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1
>> >
>> > Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
>> > every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
>> > holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
>> > Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
>> > staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
>> > rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of
>> > Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
>>
>> What was the fine?
>>
> I'm betting it was outweighed by the appreciation in the sale price of
> the book...

There's no telling where the money went.

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Bryce Utting

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May 22, 2009, 3:14:23 AM5/22/09
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Jeffrey Turner <jtu...@localnet.com> wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?_r=1
>>
>> Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library
>> every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in
>> holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute
>> Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library
>> staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a
>> rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s "On the Origin of
>> Species," one of the most famous books ever written.
>
> What was the fine?

if they're clever, they'd get her to insure it for the next 80 years.


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