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BOOK RETURNED (57 YEARS) LATE
Friday, January 25th, 2008 -- 12:09 pm
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
It's a novel but it's created a mystery - where has the overdue book been for the past 57 years?
The book "Northern Lights" by Roger Vercel turned up in the Marshfield Public Library's book drop about a month ago.
Published in 1948, its most recent checkout stamp reads either March or May 10 of 1950.
Library director Lori Belongia says records don't go back that far, so they don't know who checked it out.
The library's policy is to ask for reimbursement for books that become so long overdue that it stops charging overdue notices, so someone probably already paid for it.
Belongia says the book is in good shape but it's no longer popular and probably won't go back on the shelf.
It's no mystery what's happened to book prices.
The library has records that show the book was purchased in hardcover in 1948 for $1.93. Now the average book costs more than $25.
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